As the title says. I build containers for my platforms/clients/myself-selfhosted@home and you would not believe how much smaller you can get your images. Here’s an example when slimming one of my images:

cmd=build info=results status='MINIFIED' by='18.97X' size.original='1.0 GB' size.optimized='55 MB' 

That’s a Python app that I didn’t have to do multi-staged build with docker because of the Slim command. And it’s a working version of that app that I’m using today.

Same for one of my flutter apps that I thought it was as small as it could be:

cmd=build info=results status='MINIFIED' by='1.98X' size.original='66 MB' size.optimized='33 MB'

TLDR: slim your container images!! https://github.com/slimtoolkit/slim

  • maor@lemmy.org.il
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    1 year ago

    Oh there’s an --exec flag as well? That’s great. This seems like a totally viable solution for cases where the crux of the container is a small script, with a handful of decision branches so the surface area to cover is manageable, but it also needs to come in a non-alpine distro because I assume that’s the hefty part that we’re like to remove. But that’s just off the top of my head, I’m sure there’s more. It’s genuinely a good idea and it deserves a respectful README as well :(