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Use alpine image whenever possible

Here is my results when I changed base image from openjdk:latest to clojure:alpine

registry.it-expert.com.ua/nexus/privat-manager latest 61e0537043a3 24 hours ago 260MB
registry.it-expert.com.ua/nexus/privat-manager 8b8634a576b1 3 days ago 863MB

Difference is 603 fucking megabytes with equally the same functionality!