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This is huge, thanks for the lead. Others should note it's still experimental and your build command may fail with

> "--squash" is only supported on a Docker daemon with experimental features enabled

Up til now, our biggest improvement was with "FROM SCRATCH".

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No problem.

  > Others should note it's still experimental and your build command may fail with

You might try "docker buildx build", to use the BuildKit client -- squash isn't experimental in that one I believe =)

https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/buildx_...

Good to know. `FROM scratch` is such a breath of fresh air for compiled apps. No need for Alpine if I just need to run a binary!

Do keep in mind that you might want a set of trusted TLS certificates and the timezone database. Both will be annoying runtime errors when you don't trust https://api.example.com or try to return a time to a user in their preferred time zone. Distroless includes these.

Yea CA certs are the first pain point I hit. Worth the hurdle. Noted on the timezone. Never really thought about that one. Thanks!

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