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Difference between docker image names of alpine, jessie, buster and stretch

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  1. Alpine
    Url: https://alpinelinux.org/
    Imagename: alpine
    Shorty: Its very small.
    Packagemanger: apk
    Shells: /bin/sh
    Size: Few MBs - current tag needs 2.7MB
  2. Jessie aka Debian 8
    Url: DebianJessie - Debian Wiki
    Imagename: debian:jessie
    Shorty: No LTS anymore
    Packagemanager: apt
    Shells: /bin/bash
    Size: ~50mb
  3. Stretch aka Debian 9
    Url: DebianStretch - Debian Wiki
    Imagename: debian:stretch
    Shorty: LTS is running out
    Packagemanager: apt
    Shells: /bin/bash and many more
    Size: ~40mb
  4. Buster aka Debian 10
    Url: DebianBuster - Debian Wiki
    Imagename: debian:buster
    Shorty: All what you need, but newer
    Packagemanager: apt
    Shells: /bin/bash and many more
    Size: ~50mb
  5. Bullseye aka Debian 11
    Url: DebianBullseye - Debian Wiki
    Imagename: debian:bullseye
    Shorty: Newest debian
    Shells: /bin/bash and many more
    Size: ~50mb
  6. Ubuntu based on debain
    Url: Docker Hub
    Imagename: ubuntu
    Shorty: All what you need
    Packagemanager: apt
    Shells: /bin/bash and more
    Size: ~25mb