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In the era of microservices and cloud computing, Docker has become an indispensable tool for application development and de...
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It'd be worth noting that a cleanup command e.g the one in the
Delete Unnecessary Files
section only reduce final image size when it's in the same RUN command as the install. That's one of the common pitfalls.
Thank you, you're right, updated the article to highlight it
Great post! Well done!
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Great suggestion.
Haven't read through it thoroughly, but I love the layout, and the table of content is a beauty
The timing is insane, I read this article when I need to optimize docker image.
Thanks a lot man, you just save me 🙏
very nice, thanks. there are a couple of things I did not know about, will be restructuring my dockerfiles
Congratulations. Very good examples. Thanks for sharing.
A great post fr. Thanks man, much needed
Nice post!.
Thanks for sharing.
Use a linter like hadolint, simple.
Write about caching intermediate files to speed up builds and saving on download time/bytes (nothing better than having to work on a 50kB/s connection in a developing country to learn that...)
You dont do npm ci in dockerfile, because you cant get env vars dynamically from ur CI engine, without scripting.
You build your app in CI environment and then copy artifacts to dockerfile.