Release APK package for Alpine Linux

[jiasli]

Question. Is there not an alpine az-cli that you can just apk add to the image?

Originally posted by @hholst80 in #19591 (comment)

[jiasli]

We currently don't release APK package for Alpine Linux.

However, the official Azure CLI docker image is built upon Alpine Linux. We recommend using it whenever possible. You may also take the Dockerfile as a reference.

To install Azure CLI with pip from PyPI on Alpine Linux, please see #19591.

[andrei-dascalu]

+1 here for having an official apk.
An official separate Docker image is nice but there are many cases when we need to also have azure-cli as part of an image containing multiple tools.

[Anonymous-Coward]

I believe there's a good reason to prioritize this regardless of the votes. This issue isn't readily found when searching for installing az on alpine - instead, the installation instructions are found. Not everybody has the patience, motivation or time to read through the whole thread of comments there, to get a link to this issue.

Nevertheless, while debian- and redhat-based images may be used more frequently overall for production workloads of all kinds, I believe alpine is used overwhelmingly for periodic jobs, automatic script execution and all sorts of other infrastructure and operations related tasks. This overlaps to a large extent with where az is used too. Therefore, providing an .apk package would probably be a lot more useful than providing .rpm and .deb packages for the specific people who need to script az, not just run it manually from a VM inside Azure or from their local machine.

+1 docker image is not alpine based anymore!