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How to make a Docker container smaller by deleting files

Let’s try that — actually, let’s let someone on StackOverflow try that. We pick up with an image, tester/mytestfedora, that has a file in it to be deleted. The file, Riverbed.zip, is 25MB. Ok, cool, let’s get in there, delete this file, then commit that container into a new image.