Building Better Containers: A Survey of Container Build Tools [I]

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Survey of concrete build tools: Buildah (still OS-centric), NixOS containers (declarative but ties to Nix host), Ansible Container (good if already invested in Ansible), Smith: microcontainers (claims a final image ~3% of typical Docker Hub image), Distroless via Bazel (strips OS but is language-specific), Source-to-Image (versioned build/run images), BuildKit (new, promising build primitives), and Habitat (exporters plus a supervisor baked in). Talk provides size numbers (averages ~470–870MB, Fedora ~220MB), tradeoffs, and no live demos.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:51Review of What's a Container
3. 5:23Problem with the Dockerfile paradigm
4. 6:13Problem with the Dockertile paradigm
5. 8:12Real World Numbers Show the Problem
6. 8:55Base OS Image Size
7. 10:32Official Image Size
8. 10:45Public Image Size
9. 13:15buildah
10. 15:58nixos-container
11. 19:15ansible container
12. 22:23Smith
13. 25:53Distroless
14. 27:18Source-to-Image
15. 29:28Buildkit
16. 34:59Lot's of choices
17. 38:19Summary

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