Re: [atomic-devel] We have a bugzilla requesting that we change the default CMD to systemd for base images in RHEL

[Jeremy Eder <jeder redhat com>]

When you "docker pull golang", the image is over 600MB (and it's built on alpine).

Same with docker pull java...also > 600MB.

docker pull alpine is not apples:apples.  If you're pulling alpine it's because you're about to shove in a ton of other stuff.

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Joe Brockmeier <jzb redhat com> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm fedoraproject org> wrote:
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> We've definitely got a ways to go here — our base image is very large
> by any standard, let alone compared to alpine or busybox.

It is, and I support un-embiggening it, but ... IIRC Scott McCarty did
some apples:apples comparisons w/Alpine and once you load up an
application the size differential is seriously reduced.

(e.g.,  try adding PHP to Alpine and then see how it compares, size-wise.)

Best,

jzb


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