Lack of maintenance for chromedriver builds – alternative with multi-arch Alpine images

[erseco]

Hello,

It seems that this repository is no longer actively maintained, and several issues related to chromedriver remain unresolved, such as:

• GitHub Actions aren't working #268
• Image build process seems stuck at version 124 #262

Additionally, the with-chromedriver builds are not working anymore and there haven’t been new releases for some time.

There is a fork from Zoobdude/alpine-chrome (see this comment which continues updating Chrome versions, but in my case I decided to provide a separate lightweight repository dedicated to this use case.

👉 erseco/alpine-chromedriver

Key points:

• Based on Alpine Linux 3.22
• Includes both Chromium and ChromeDriver
• Multi-arch support (amd64, arm64, arm/v7)
• Ready for Selenium, Puppeteer, Playwright or direct WebDriver usage
• Images automatically published on Docker Hub and GitHub Container Registry
• Runs under non-root user (nobody)
• Includes proper dumb-init and a healthcheck to validate ChromeDriver availability

Given that this repo no longer ships new versions of with-chromedriver, I’ve automated builds so the community can continue using a minimal, up-to-date Alpine-based image for testing and automation.

You can pull it with:

docker pull erseco/alpine-chromedriver

If there’s interest, I’d be happy to collaborate to either:

• transfer/merge efforts back here, or
• simply keep this alternative as a maintained drop-in replacement.

Thanks for all the work done in the original alpine-chrome project! 🙏