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+UID
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-Rootless Alpine base image. The pre-configured non-root user is a system user named `app` and UID `101`. There is also a primary group with the same values.
+Rootless Alpine base image. The preconfigured non-root user is a system user named `app` and UID `101`. There is also a primary group with the same values.
 
 ## License