Archive: September 2018
2 posts published in September 2018
Reducing size of Docker images
Making efficient final images
Most blogs and manuals will recommend you the simpler approaches to reducing the image of your docker image. We’ll go a little further today but let’s reiterate them anyway:
- Use the reduced version of base images (alpine usually recommended), avoid SDKs for final images
- Use multistage build, do not copy over temporary files or sources
- Take care of the .dockerignore, ignore as much as possible
Having said that, it is possible that you’ll still end up with a very huge docker image, and it’s difficult to understand what the next step from here.
This is where this post comes in.
Working effectively with legacy code (review)
Your weapons against any badly designed code
I just finished reading Working effectively with legacy code, by Michael Feathers. The title is perfectly descriptive and quite ambiguous at the same time. Let me explain to you why.