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? -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
