You might not need to care about image size at all if your image can be packaged as stargz. stargz is a gamechanger for startup time. kubernetes and podman su

You might not need to care about image size at all if your image can be packaged as stargz. stargz is a gamechanger for startup time. kubernetes and podman support it, and docker support is likely coming. It lazy loads the filesystem on start-up, making network requests for things as needed and therefore can often start up large images very fast. Take a look at the startup graph here: https://github.com/containerd/stargz-snapshotter https://github.com/containerd/stargz-snapshotter