What's the process? I found grub2 and fedora-logos in my own testing
but didn't know about firewalld? Does one simply remove things and run
a test suite? *Is* there a test suite?
How about dracut? Does that need to be there?
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 7:18 AM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 11:36:04PM -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
wrote:
> I'm starting to build Docker images on the Fedora base and I'm a
> little concerned about the size of the images. For example, the Debian
> base is 85.1 MB, the Ubuntu base is 192 MB and the CentOS base is 224
> MB. The Fedora base is 250.2 MB and that's *before* I install any
> application code.
> Is there any way I can build a smaller base? Ideally I'd like
> something under 100 MB but even getting it under 200 MB would be
> worthwhile.
Yeah it seems to have crept up a bit. The image went from this Cloud
SIG over to the Base WG (since there's so much interest in Docker), but
I think we still have a vested interest in keeping it small. In
general, much of the regular dependency-shrinking work we've been doing
should help here.
Unfortunately, the easy work is mostly done, as is some of the
moderately hard. The next most helpful thing is probably making a
compact version of python sufficient for yum, cloud-init, grubby (new
version), and _possibly_ firewalld. As it is, it's about a third
Oh hmmm. I see that grub2 got into the docker image somehow. That
should probaby be fixed, and provides a big savings even in the
compressed version because that's the only thing that pulls in
fedora-logos.
Hmmm. Firewalld too. That really doesn't need to be there, does it?
That said, the docker image we're producing *is* only 90MB compressed —
see
<
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/21/Docker/x86_64/>
— and 241MB uncompressed. Something _additionally_ weird is going on.
Are you interested in taking point on this for Fedora 22? Or finding a
handful of people who are interested in working with the Base WG to
figure it out?
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