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True, but a couple github imports and 10 lines of code generates a 100mb binary. But, to be fair, I guess we're okay with shipping huge binaries now a days beca

• yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
  To be fair, you're not really supposed to be shipping a full system in a docker image if you can help it; you're supposed to layer your application over the smallest base that will support it (whether that's scratch, distroless, alpine, or a minimal debian base). Of course, I'll be the first to agree that "supposed to" and reality have little in common; if I had a dollar for every time I've seen a final image that still included the whole compiler chain...
  • majewsky 6y ago
    In my experience, most who build fat images with the compiler chain and everything do so because they're simply not aware that multi-stage builds are a thing now.
    • yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
      Yep. And just general awareness of how Docker works and how to best use it. And that's not a knock on them; it's a whole topic unto itself, and lots of these folks are developers who are just trying to get their stuff working without having to go off and learn all about Docker, and I have a hard time blaming them for that. Which, of course, is why they keep a handful of us sysadmin folks on staff to help tidy up;)