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I don't know about you but I work on a laptop, and I work on multiple projects, and each project might use dozens of containers for builds, testing, releases, e

I don't know about you but I work on a laptop, and I work on multiple projects, and each project might use dozens of containers for builds, testing, releases, etcetra. If every container were a gigabyte in size, majority of the laptop's internal storage would be wasted on them, nevermind the time wasted pushing and pulling updates.

hardwaresofton 5y ago
I do too (my laptop is pretty beefy though), and yes you're right this would be a problem, if containers weren't built to combat this with Copy on Write filesystems. That said, dependencies do take up a lot of space, but machines these days also come with a lot of space. People also run prune and develop caching strategies (ex. NPM) as a result. It's not like every container will be a GB in size, as it's not reasonable to have every container have that much content, but how many people are out there using 950MB dependency-filled base containers with 50MB of actual relevant application code? Most people learned the run-it-on-alpine lesson like 5+ years ago at this point.
- lanstin 5y ago
  My new laptop has 3T of disk. I have the old feeling of what can I possibly do with it all. I have two copies of all my photos and text files etc. and dual boot Arch and Ubuntu but still it is so Empty. I don’t think even a very aggressive go get campaign can fill it.
  - thrwaeasddsaf 5y ago
    My work laptop has 0.5T SSD and it's 90% full. Turns out VMs, large repos, and OS projects are big. I know there are some large docker images too.
    - hardwaresofton 5y ago
      Do you run `docker system prune`/`docker image prune` and related commands from time to time? I assume you already know about it but just in case. Just recently I found that I had like 100s of GBs used up on my hard drive because I'd installed and used podman for a while and it's image store was separate and just... sitting there, long after I'd moved back to docker for reasons.

hardwaresofton 5y ago

I do too (my laptop is pretty beefy though), and yes you're right this would be a problem, if containers weren't built to combat this with Copy on Write filesystems. That said, dependencies do take up a lot of space, but machines these days also come with a lot of space. People also run prune and develop caching strategies (ex. NPM) as a result. It's not like every container will be a GB in size, as it's not reasonable to have every container have that much content, but how many people are out there using 950MB dependency-filled base containers with 50MB of actual relevant application code? Most people learned the run-it-on-alpine lesson like 5+ years ago at this point.

lanstin 5y ago
My new laptop has 3T of disk. I have the old feeling of what can I possibly do with it all. I have two copies of all my photos and text files etc. and dual boot Arch and Ubuntu but still it is so Empty. I don’t think even a very aggressive go get campaign can fill it.
- thrwaeasddsaf 5y ago
  My work laptop has 0.5T SSD and it's 90% full. Turns out VMs, large repos, and OS projects are big. I know there are some large docker images too.
  - hardwaresofton 5y ago
    Do you run `docker system prune`/`docker image prune` and related commands from time to time? I assume you already know about it but just in case. Just recently I found that I had like 100s of GBs used up on my hard drive because I'd installed and used podman for a while and it's image store was separate and just... sitting there, long after I'd moved back to docker for reasons.