This guest post is written by Prakhar Srivastav, Senior
Software Engineer at Google.
Anyone who’s built their own containers, either for local
development or for cloud deployment, knows the advantages of
keeping container sizes small.In most cases, keeping the container
image size small translates to real dollars saved by reducing
bandwidth and storage costs on the cloud.In addition, smaller
images ensure faster transfer and deployments when using them in a
CI/CD server. However, even for experienced Docker users, it can
