How I shrunk a Docker image by 98.8% – featuring fanotify

Re:How I shrunk a Docker image by 98.8% – featuring fanotify by social42 on Saturday April 25, 2015 @12:43PM (#9438781)

Why not just use a micro kernel container like OSV from cloud outs? Same result with less effort

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Re:How I shrunk a Docker image by 98.8% – featuring fanotify by jtlebigot on Saturday April 25, 2015 @01:35PM (#9438949)

The truth is hidden in a comment: The goal was to learn fanotify syscall using a real world use-case. This said, when Dockerizing an application from scratch, using an optimized base image may be a suitable option. But that's not always the case. For instance, I often start a project from the Python base image which contains loads of generic libraries that I will not use in a given project but will be important for others. This is when a profiling based approach is interesting. You get the ease of a known environment and the efficiency of an optimized image.

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Re:How I shrunk a Docker image by 98.8% – featuring fanotify by errordeveloper on Saturday April 25, 2015 @02:13PM (#9439084)

OSv is a unikernel and isn't a container... but anyway, good point!

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