there is an outstanding request in docker-library/mariadb for Alpine support:

What I know is that we currently don't build packages for Alpine. Alpine is going to be the platform of choice for Docker containers in the future (you can read about the various advantages of Alpine here: https://www.brianchristner.io/docker-is-moving-to-alpine-linux/).

Federico Razzoli has managed to make MariaDB 10.1 work in Alpine with some caveats (no tokudb, no oqgraph, no galera). You can look at his work here https://hub.docker.com/r/santec/mariadb-alpine/. I admit I don't know about portability of Galera lib on Alpine - should probably talk to Codership about that.

Is there any way we can make this happen?