Comparing Alpine vs UBI images

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Issue

  • Why Alpine images are lighter than RHEL UBI images?
  • What is the reason Alpine is lighter than RHEL UBI images?

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP)
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  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
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    • UBI images

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