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Re:Docker-slim: Minify your Docker container image without c... by nikolay on Thursday December 12, 2019 @08:17PM (#21778284)
Nothing beats

    FROM scratch
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Re:Docker-slim: Minify your Docker container image without c... by yegle on Monday December 16, 2019 @01:06PM (#21805330)
This is misleading. For very basic things, you'll need timezone files, ca-certificate, for many Linux tool/libraries to work properly.
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Re:Docker-slim: Minify your Docker container image without c... by nikolay on Monday December 16, 2019 @06:35PM (#21808753)
Yeah, and all these could be copied from another container. I've slimmed down and lots of sidecar containers and, on top, I used UPX [0] on the binaries as well. Premature optimization is the root of all evils, true, but sometimes, for example, for Prometheus exporters you need to run on a bunch of nodes as sidecars, it totally makes sense to go the extra mile.

[0]: https://upx.github.io/

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