How to Decrease the Size of Docker Images

Sunday, January 19, 2020

Creating new docker images based on some official Linux distributions or modifying existing ones increase their size. Sometimes, the difference between the new and the old ones dramatically exceeds the size of new packages or modifications. The reason behind that is mostly the way how images structure looks like and how Docker uses images and containers. How are docker images created? Docker images consist of multiple layers. Each layer corresponds to separate instruction in image Dockerfile.…

Who, What and Why

Friday, January 10, 2020

Hi, my name is Łukasz, and I do IT stuff for a living. I have over 13 years of experience in the IT industry - from software architecture and development, through system administration, people and project management, to IT support. I am a big fan of modern web development technologies. For over five years, I was actively involved in Open Source projects. I wrote my first computer program in BASIC for a Commodore 64 microcomputer when I was 12.…