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Re: Building container images with nix2container
From: |
Antoine Eiche |
Subject: |
Re: Building container images with nix2container |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Mar 2024 18:09:47 +0100 |
Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
>> Does your built images contains several layers?
>
> This had recently been introduced.
>
> 0cf75c9b2f23869201144917cea7f6ad49683d3d
> AuthorDate: Tue Dec 26 03:54:12 2023 +0300
> CommitDate: Mon Jan 8 21:04:44 2024 +0300
Thanks.
>> nix2container uses an heuristic to group store paths into layers. The
>> goal is to share common layers between images and to avoid full image
>> rebuild when only a storepath differs.
>
> Well, I have not followed on which strategy Guix relies. What is the
> one of nix2container? The one described here:
>
> https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images/
Yes.
But I think it could be improved by taking the nar size into account.
lewo.