I am trying to run my java application in windows container.I have been succesful in making docker image and running it. My concern is size, I am new to docker so I may be wrong in understanding this. The base Image of microsoft\windowscoreserver has size of 8 gb when I see through docker images. …

Whatever you have been experiencing is CORRECT. The two variants of Windows Base images are as follows: microsoft/windowsservercore – basically windows server, .Net 4.5, 9.3 Gigs, large, fully compatible, support Windows existing app microsoft/nanoserver – very smaller, ~600MB, no graphic st…

I recommend checking out the blog post: Blog | Docker Thanks to Docker’s highly efficient image layering, this is not a big problem in practice. Any given Docker host only needs to pull the base layer once, and any images pulled or built on that system simply reuse the base layer. The other bas…

Does this mean we have to push a full 10 gb Image to remote repository (or Docker Hub) every time there is a change in my writable layer?

no, it means the opposite: Those base layers are pulled once and re-used for any subsequent containers and images that you build or run.

Thanks "Official Microsoft Windows images or any image you create based on them aren’t distributable by default. When you push a Windows image to DTR, Docker only pushes the image manifest but not the image layers. This means that: DTR won’t be able to scan those images for vulnerabilities since D…

Found my answer here… [image] Why does docker push base image layers that are already on docker hub? Docker Hub There is no reason why you would “push again over and over” all layers. Once you push the base layers to a given image (first time pushing to “user/foo”), you …

Size of windows base image

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abjinugu (Abhinand Jinugu) August 25, 2017, 7:29pm 7

Found my answer here…

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Size of windows base image

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