Containers on a diet

Ship It! SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps

Kyle Quest joins the show to tell Autumn & Justin all about the evolution of DockerSlim & minimal container images. Why are small container images important? What are different strategies to make containers smaller? Let’s find out!

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Featuring:

• Kyle Quest – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Links of the week

• How the Tech Industry Broke the Promises It Made to Women
• Where is all of the fediverse?

Interview

• SlimToolkit

How things break

• AT&T and Verizon outage
• Meta outage
• LinkedIn outage
• Kagi postmortem (cached)

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Luvut

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:08)

2. The opener (00:00:50)

3. Sponsor: Sentry (00:17:10)

http://sentry.io/events/launch-week/

4. Kyle Quest (00:20:54)

5. Automation opportunities (00:22:31)

6. Why AI? (00:25:03)

7. Why a small container? (00:25:45)

8. How does it work today? (00:28:26)

9. What techique is used? (00:30:36)

10. What is eBPF? (00:33:10)

11. Coolest thing to break (00:35:18)

12. The slimming process (00:37:38)

13. Other benefits to DockerSlim (00:40:16)

14. Understanding best practices (00:42:06)

15. Faster pools and start-ups (00:45:15)

16. How it improves start-up (00:46:33)

17. Why not start as minimal as possible? (00:48:05)

18. Slim vs distroless (00:51:02)

19. Runtimes are like stem cells (00:52:31)

20. Thank you Kyle! (00:53:21)

21. How to reach out (00:53:57)

22. Sponsor: Synadia (00:54:22)

https://www.synadia.com/changelog

23. The closer (00:59:40)

24. Outro (01:15:43)