Docker Alpine Linux python (missing)

Question

I have a pipeline which deploys my container from GitLab. Last deployment was 5 days ago and went without any problems. Today I deploy it and get the following error:

Answer 1

I've fix following this https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/11605

Updating your code to install python3:

before_script:
- apk add --update --no-cache curl jq py3-configobj py3-pip py3-setuptools python3 python3-dev

Answer 2

From this issue on the Docker's repo:

This was "broken" while updating our base from alpine:3.11 to alpine:3.12

In order to fix it you need to specify the version of Python directly, e.g.:

apk add python2
// or
apk add python3

Answer 3

Could you try this command?

apk add --update --no-cache curl py-pip

It will install python3 automatically with pip.

My understanding is, python (version 2) has been decommissioned from latest alpine packages.