Static content deploy fails with missing locale

This issue appears mostly in Docker containers after initial build. If you try to run bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy you will get an error like this:

Argument has invalid value, please run info:language:list for list of available locale

The list of possible locales in Magento 2 is driven by options provided by ICU library/package. The ICU project homepage is https://icu.unicode.org/. If you run your environment based on Alpine Linux, you will need to install icu packages. This will provide the necessary locales.

apk add icu-dev icu-libs icu-data-full

After that, you can run bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy and it should work.

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