Alpine Linux Server - Docs 4 Web

Wild Tech Garden’s documentation by Daniel F. Dickinson for using Alpine Linux for local servers on x86-64 and Raspberry Pi family.

Ensure your Alpine install media has not been tampered with by cryptographically verifying your Alpine Linux download.

This set of guides and recommendations is aimed at the use of Alpine for your local servers on physical hardware where you have access to the boot console.

The following are not part of the base install, but either can be essential to system function (like adding boot entropy for some headless systems like the Raspberry Pi) or are widely accepted best practices (like creating a non-root admin user and limiting time spent as root).

Configure backups on all systems, and create a more comfortable terminal environment for system on which you use the shell.