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There is nothing official about these images.

"Let's use this packaging some rando on the Internet built" is a strategy that is exactly as good as it seems, but that's the Docker ecosystem for you.

Packagers who actually understand the software put in good work to package that software in small and well maintained packages. Use them instead!

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Yeah, took me long enough to learn that. I just trusted the "official" badge.
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Fully agree. Moved to FrankenPHP's static build (which was ready very quickly) to get away from it. Don't intend to ever use the "official" images again.
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I'm wondering if it's not just better to use plain Debian base images.

  FROM debian:... 
  RUN apt install php ...
This will take longer on a cold build cache, and pins the PHP version to the current Debian version. But Debian once again proved very reliable to patch in time.
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Those images are not even official. "Official" is just a misnomer in Docker.
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