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Test out --squash option when building images #55

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nuest opened this issue Aug 22, 2017 · 1 comment
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Test out --squash option when building images #55

nuest opened this issue Aug 22, 2017 · 1 comment
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nuest commented Aug 22, 2017

Take a loog at how the created image tarball looks - is squashing a plus for reproducibility?

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nuest commented Mar 11, 2018

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41764336/how-does-the-new-docker-squash-work

see also example in README of https://github.com/goldmann/docker-squash

Squashing may improve manual inspection after a long time, because there are not multiple layers to explore. But it also reduces transparency as there is not one layer per Dockerfile instruction.

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