Month: July 2014

In my previous entry I discussed how to create a docker image using a minimal Dockerfile. There are a few benefits to this method, the main one being is that you can eliminate a lot less baggage layers resulting from the Dockerfile build process.  This is good because the resulting image is much smaller and you’ll have […]

Originally some of my dockerfiles looked something like this.. FROM    docker.psidox.com/base ADD     large.zip . RUN     apt-get update RUN     apt-get install -y unzip .. RUN     unzip large.zip … .. CMD     [“/bin/bash”, “/bootstrap.sh”] The docker images built from these docker files would have a lot of unnecessary layers since each line in a dockerfile represents a single layer. […]