Re: Minimizing the fedora docker base image footprint

[Bill Nottingham]

Courtney Pacheco ([e-mail]) said:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've spent some time trying to minimize the footprint of the Fedora docker
> base image. Overall, I managed to reduce its size by 39.9%.
>
> A summary of the work I did can be found here:
> https://gist.github.com/iamcourtney/1a4af7c4289014f57080
>
> If you're interested, you can find a more detailed version of the above work
> here: https://gist.github.com/iamcourtney/b8709ed897b7ecc9ac0f

May be a dumb question...

If we're excluding DNF, RPM, etc. for a slimmer base image during runtime,
how are we describing the best practices for build? Is the intention that
you should always be pulling in a separate tool container to assist with
the build process?

Bill