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What risk does switching to an Alpine base image introduce?
Alpine uses musl libc instead of glibc, and musl's subtle behavioral differences (particularly around DNS resolution and certain native library interactions) have caused real production bugs that don't appear in testing on glibc-based images — switching requires actual testing on the Alpine image, not just an assumption of compatibility.
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