  At high collision energies as achieved at the LHC there are increasing
contributions from hard processes, which can be computed with perturbative QCD.
Nevertheless, particle production is still dominated by soft QCD with
transferred momentum of a few GeV. These phenomena are described by
non-perturbative phenomenology and challenge the theoretical models. ALICE has
measured several observables which target soft QCD, both in Run 1 and 2
proton-proton and proton-lead collisions at the LHC. A selection of results
will be presented in these proceedings, focusing on the model comparisons and
summarising the understanding of soft QCD after almost 8 years of data taking.
