I believe that the problems we have with Debian buster are mostly
related to the versions of Perl modules shipped with debian packages.
Since these Dockerfiles install all Perl modules from CPAN in their
latest version, I think you will have the same problems with an older
version of Debian.
I'd also note that in production you'd probably want to use a reverse proxy in
the same container as Starman for performance reasons, since the reverse proxy
will do better than Starman at serving static assets. On a different Perl
project, I've used HTTP::Server::PSGI for development, and it do