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Discussion on: Build 100kB Docker Images from Scratch

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suntong

Not trying to be discouraging, but I've gone along that path before, and found the solution only good enough for hello-world toy programs. Real programs interact with OS in all kinds of ways. I.e., I'd like to see how a real-world program that interacts with OS in all kinds of ways can benefit from such 100kB Smaller images. That'll be really interesting. Thanks.

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Tony Metzidis

Good point. With a little diligence it can be done.

Here's a broader example building a rest api into a tiny container dev.to/tonymet/build-a-2mb-rest-ap...

Later on I'll show tooling you can use to help identify dependencies methodically so it seems less like voodoo

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suntong

Loving it -- looking forward to your updates.