Why does it take ages to install Pandas on Alpine Linux

Question

I\'ve noticed that installing Pandas and Numpy (it\'s dependency) in a Docker container using the base OS Alpine vs. CentOS or Debian takes much longer. I created a little t

Answer 1

alpine takes lot of time to install pandas and the image size is also huge. I tried the python:3.8-slim-buster version of python base image. Image build was very fast and size of image was less than half in comparison to alpine python docker image

https://github.com/dguyhasnoname/k8s-cluster-checker/blob/master/Dockerfile