It's worth looking at the experience of other open source projects.

For example, the Jenkins project is moving away from Alpline
<https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-55547>. The issue
specifically is OpenJDK support moving forward. At this moment, it's not
clear that the OpenJDK project will publish Alpine-based images, so the
Jenkins project cannot rely on that path. This is also being discussed in
the mailing list
<https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/jenkinsci-dev/9kIJFrk9vRA/S3bcVNzKAAAJ>.
It's worth following the conversation there.

Also note that Alpine's reputation of being smallest is not necessarily
deserved. Here are some observations from our own research on OpenJDK
images:

   - Red Hat Minimal + OpenJDK = 313 MB
   - Alpine based OpenJDK = 340 MB
   - Red Hat based OpenJDK 8 image = 456 MB
   - Debian based OpenJDK = 839 MB

As I keep reiterating, as long as all ONAP images derive from the same
base, as they eventually will, the actual size of that base is a non issue
and we should be choosing our reference implementation based on other
criteria such as community health, stability, security, ongoing
maintenance, developer mindshare, etc.

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