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If you build containers, you should be looking into Docker Slim (lemmy.fancywhale.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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As the title says. I build containers for my platforms/clients/myself-selfhosted@home and you would not believe how much smaller you can get your images. Here's an example when slimming one of my images:

cmd=build info=results status='MINIFIED' by='18.97X' size.original='1.0 GB' size.optimized='55 MB'

That's a Python app that I didn't have to do multi-staged build with docker because of the Slim command. And it's a working version of that app that I'm using today.

Same for one of my flutter apps that I thought it was as small as it could be:

cmd=build info=results status='MINIFIED' by='1.98X' size.original='66 MB' size.optimized='33 MB'

TLDR: slim your container images!! https://github.com/slimtoolkit/slim

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Huh, I figured my containers were already as small as I could get them by using compiled go binaries in a distroless container. But it looks like there could still be some gains to be made!

[–] CodaBool 2 points 1 year ago

I love go on distroless, that sucker is like <5Mb. Use it all the time for AWS lambdas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, same thing I found out! Crazy to see my already quite slim image being reduce all that much!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Crazy to see my already quite slim image being reduce all that much!

*size.original='1.0 GB' *

I mean.... I don't know what that does, of course, but I would rarely use "quite slim" to describe that :D

"size.original='66 MB' size.optimized='33 MB'"

This one's nice though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah? I meant the 66MB one. The 1GB was an image that I just installed everything necessary to compile my code and run from the same image. I didn’t try to make it “right”. Nice to know I don’t have to worry about it though!