Minimizing the fedora docker base image footprint
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
I essentially looked at which packages were being installed to the base
image and tried to determine which of those packages could be turned
into weak dependencies and which of those packages we could possibly
break up.
If possible, I'd like some feedback on the work I did. Comments and
criticism are more than welcomed! I realize there may be some
controversy in terms of what I chose to remove and what I chose to turn
into weak dependencies, but I would like to hear your thoughts either way.
As a side note, I originally posted my preliminary results to
atomic-devel list a few weeks ago, but I used some of the feedback I got
to make improvements. I also was able to reduce glibc with the help of
Carlos O'Donell.
Thanks!