Reduce Your Image Size with the Dive-In Docker Extension

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This guest post is written by Prakhar Srivastav, Senior Software Engineer at Google. In most cases, keeping the container image size small translates to real dollars saved by reducing bandwidth and storage costs on the cloud.

Dive takes this information and does the following: Breaks down the image contents in the Docker image layer by layer.

Dive-In: A Docker Extension for Dive https://hub.docker.com/extensions/prakhar1989/dive-in is a https://docs.docker.com/desktop/extensions/ that’s built on top of Dive so Docker users can explore their containers directly from Docker Desktop.

The Dive-In Docker Extension helps you explore a Docker image and discover ways to shrink the size.

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