Yeah, venvs are the answer to “why is that folder 8gb?”
Containers are the answer to “why is my hard drive completely full”
They are both the answer to “why is my project not working here where it’s working there” and “why do I need 17 copies of libc in their own little soft jails?”
It’s pruned down to a very small size. Occupies only a couple mb on disk. By default leaves out a bunch of features that are unnecessary for a container base image.
Yeah, venvs are the answer to “why is that folder 8gb?”
Containers are the answer to “why is my hard drive completely full”
They are both the answer to “why is my project not working here where it’s working there” and “why do I need 17 copies of libc in their own little soft jails?”
Hold up, are people just out there not using Alpine for a container base image?
meh, someone probably forgot to nuke old images
Thank you for mentioning this! In thought I was the worlds only moron who filled 1tb with stale docker images.
And that kids, is when I learned about
prune - aWhat’s the alpine advantage here?
It’s pruned down to a very small size. Occupies only a couple mb on disk. By default leaves out a bunch of features that are unnecessary for a container base image.
Huh! Good to know, ty