Backend Dockerfile using Alpine

We’re using Backstage in an enterprise environment where Twistlock is used to assess the security of containers. Official Node.js Docker images are notorious for reporting many security vulnerabilities. For this reason, our organization uses Alpine as a base for the majority of containers which have much fewer vulnerability reports in the base operating system.

Scaffolder uses Alpine already, but the base container created with @backstage/create-app is using Ubuntu Buster.

Feature Suggestion

Either provide an alternative to Ubuntu that uses Alpine or replace Ubuntu with Alpine base image.

Possible Implementation

I tried to do this myself several times but I kept getting segfault errors. I believe the Backstage core team is aware of this.

[taras]

@Rugvip informed me that some native dependencies changed in a recent version of Backstage. I’m going to try upgrading to the latest version and report back.

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