On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? The list from the latest image in the docker repository is: http://paste.fedoraproject.org/168966/21139532/ I was actually playing with docker today and was poking at it. Happy to help push fixes and help generally too. Peter _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
