Containers on a diet (Ship It! #95)
Kyle Quest joins the show to tell Autumn & Justin all about the evolution of DockerSlim & minimal container images. Why are small container images important? What are different strategies to make containers smaller? Let's find out!
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- 0:08 This is Ship It!
- 0:50 The opener
- 17:10 Sponsor: Sentry
- 20:54 Kyle Quest
- 22:31 Automation opportunities
- 25:03 Why AI?
- 25:45 Why a small container?
- 28:26 How does it work today?
- 30:36 What techique is used?
- 33:10 What is eBPF?
- 35:18 Coolest thing to break
- 37:38 The slimming process
- 40:16 Other benefits to DockerSlim
- 42:06 Understanding best practices
- 45:15 Faster pools and start-ups
- 46:33 How it improves start-up
- 48:05 Why not start as minimal as possible?
- 51:02 Slim vs distroless
- 52:31 Runtimes are like stem cells
- 53:21 Thank you Kyle!
- 53:57 How to reach out
- 54:22 Sponsor: Synadia
- 59:40 The closer
- 1:15:43 Outro
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