MrXcitement/nanolayer

Help keep container layers as small as possible.

Nanolayer CLI

nanolayer helps keep container layers as small as possible.

It does so by automatically deleting any installation leftovers (such as apt-get update lists, ppas, etc)

Installation

pipx install nanolayer

GH Release installation:

Usage:

nanolayer install gh-release cli/cli gh 

Example

FROM python:3.10

RUN apt-get -y update && apt-get install -y htop 

layer size: 22MB

FROM python:3.10

RUN curl -sfL https://github.com/devcontainers-contrib/nanolayer/releases/download/v0.4.0/nanolayer-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tgz | tar fxvz - -C / && \
    chmod 755 /tmp/nanolayer && ls /tmp && \
    /nanolayer install apt-get htop && \
    rm /nanolayer

Layer size: 1.6MB