containers

You might even want to look at the minideb[1] based bitnami images if extension is less important. for example postgres: https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/post... - bitnami/postgresql:15 bb50064c650b 275MB ( postgis included! ) - postgres:15-alpine 6a35e2c987a6 243MB - postgres:15-bullseye 2bb008a38e7c 379MB [1] https://github.com/bitnami/minideb However, it is sometimes a good idea to benchmark the speed of different images, as sometimes a significant speed loss is possible. for example: alpine and bitnami images optimized for size. If reliability and support is important then the official debian based images are the way to go. ( --> postgres:15-bullseye )

I can't comment on ARM because all of my workloads are x86, but the Bitnami containers are almost always a good bet: https://bitnami.com/stacks/containers Currently I build all of my language runtime containers myself (such as Java, Python, .NET, Node and so on) for the sake of simplicity and common tools, but when I'm dealing with something more complex to configure or turnkey software (think along the lines of Keycloak, MinIO, RabbitMQ, Redis, as well as databases like MariaDB or PostgreSQL), then I often just go with what Bitnami is offering. Here's their GitHub with a bit more information about why someone might use their images: https://github.com/bitnami/containers Of course, do have a look at their instructions, because in the case of some of their images there can be some differences from the alternatives, for example: https://blo