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The thing I've liked about this is that bloat isn't just about size. If you have no reason to interact with the userland tools inside a Docker container, you s
by technion 10y ago
The thing I've liked about this is that bloat isn't just about size.
If you have no reason to interact with the userland tools inside a Docker container, you similarly have no reason to introduce their complexity and attack surface in a container designed to run one service.
My current "minimal" installation shows 25 SUID binaries (a large amount of them being systemd related...) and my server services need very few of these.
- cyphar 10y agoIf you're that concerned about bloat, you can use the scratch image to start from a completely empty rootfs.