If you want to create container images for an application you wrote yourself in a commonly used programming language (Go, Python), consider using Bazel with rul

If you want to create container images for an application you wrote yourself in a commonly used programming language (Go, Python), consider using Bazel with rules_docker: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_docker https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_docker rules_docker allows you to create byte-for-byte reproducible container images on your system, without even having a Docker daemon installed. So much cleaner to use than 'docker build' once you get the hang of it!