Small Containers for fun
Intro I have a side hobby where I try to create minimal container images. There are a number of reasons for this, but the primary one is because I’m a complete geek. Other reasons include: It’s a neatness thing There’s an engineering imperative in me to be minimalist I don’t like waste The process of creation helps me understand the technology a little better Smaller images are great for testing at scale Why The why I do this is mainly because it’s a hobby, but in this case, I started the ultra minimal container image build because someone I work with wanted to build a container for testing Istio latency at scale....