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The Alpine Mirage: How Upgrading Python Broke My Build and Led to a Truer Security Posture
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The Initial Goal: "Upgrade and Secure"
Like many developers, I recently fell into the trap of assuming that "smaller is always better, and newer is always safer." I decided to upgrade my terminal-based web UI project, py_terminal , to the bleeding-edge python:3.15-rc-alpine Docker base image.
The logic was sound:
Alpine Linux has a much smaller footprint, meaning a smaller attac...
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