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New Hack Shrinks Docker Containers

posted by martyb on Sunday February 07 2016, @09:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-talking-about-the-pants dept.

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Promising "uber tiny Docker images for all the things," Iron.io has released a new library of base images for every major language optimized to be as small as possible by using only the required OS libraries and language dependencies. "By streamlining the cruft that is attached to the node images and installing only the essentials, they reduced the image from 644 MB to 29MB," explains one technology reporter, noting this makes it quicker to download and distribute the image, and also more secure. "Less code/less programs in the container means less attack surface..." writes Travis Reeder, the co-founder of Iron.io, in a post on the company's blog. "Most people who start using Docker will use Docker's official repositories for their language of choice, but unfortunately if you use them, you'll end up with images the size of the Empire State Building..."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 08 2016, @01:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 08 2016, @01:58AM (#300399)

    Iron.io actually sells message oriented middleware with RPC support. So, there biggest competition is probably WAMP (which uses websockets via autobahn and others), 0MQ, RabbitMQ (or another AMQP implementation), or one of the other dozen or so lesser-known alternatives and goodness knows how many NIH and language specific ones.