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aboundlast Saturday at 4:24 AM1 replyview on HN

Might want to disclose that you built it.

Also, I took a quick look and I don't understand how your tool could possibly produce "even smaller images". The article is using multi-stage builds to produce a final Docker image that is quite literally just the target binary in question (based on the scratch image), whereas your tool appears be a whole Linux distribution.


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lrvicklast Saturday at 7:11 PM

I am one of the maintainers at this point, fair.

This would be a much smaller drop in replacement for the base images used in the post to give full source bootstrapped final binaries.

You can still from scratch for the final layer though of course and that would be unlikely to change size much though, to your point.