How I reduced a Docker image from 1.12 GB to 131 MB (88% smaller)

<p>We've all been there: you whip up a simple microservice in Python, write a quick Dockerfile, run <code>docker build</code>, and suddenly your container image weighs almost

<h2> The Problem with Fat Images </h2> <p>We've all been there: you pull a Docker image, and it's 1.2GB. You run a simple Node app, and the image is bigger than your entire OS.

<p>A 1.2 GB image for a service that's a few megabytes of compiled code is one of those things everyone accepts until someone actually looks at it. Slow pulls, slow deploys, a

<h1> How I Shrunk Our Docker Images from 1.2GB to 85MB Using Multi-Stage Builds </h1> <p>Last month, a junior dev on my team pushed a Docker image to our registry. The CI pipeline

<p>When I joined Ericsson's R&amp;D team as an intern, our development environment had a problem that every engineer on the team silently accepted as normal: spinning up a full

<p>Most people learn Docker by copying a <code>Dockerfile</code> that works, shipping it, and moving on. That's fine until the day a build that used to take twenty seconds

<h2> <strong>Docker Competencies: Part 1/3 (BASIC)</strong> </h2> <p><em>From "I've heard of it" to "I can ship it"</em></p> <p><strong>Task 1: Create a Multi-Stage

<p>I'm a CS student working on a side project - a .NET 8 REST API for a healthcare management system we're building at university. Nothing fancy, just something to practice