Containers on a diet
Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering
Optimizing Docker builds with multi-stage and distroless images
Using multi-stage builds helps developers optimize Docker images by building in one stage and copying only necessary components to the release stage. However, developers often make the mistake of copying the entire application folder, including unnecessary files, leading to bloated images. To address this issue, distroless images offer a middle ground between slimming down fat images and having dependencies in a minimal release stage image.
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