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 <j...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Matthew Miller > <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > > 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 > > > -- > Joe Brockmeier > Senior Evangelist, Linux Containers > j...@redhat.com > Twitter: @jzb > > -- -- Jeremy Eder
