I’ve always been wondering how Docker works in this regards, and whether I should either make as many “RUN apt-get install” commands as possible, or if I should instead try to use as few RUN commands as possible, as these increases the number of layers (?). So for example: RUN apt-get update && ap…

According to the docs , you’re supposed to just use the single RUN command example.

Multiple RUN apt-get install lines create many extra layers (not necessarily harmful but there’s a limit), prevents you from effectively cleaning up the intermediate *.deb files and package lists, and will take longer to build since APT has a non-trivial startup time. The only time I’d suggest sepa…

Alright, thanks for clearing that up for me :slight_smile:

Excuse the NOOB sounding question but… which file are you guys referring to here? I’m trying to run command to install apache.

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