Dockerfile Tips & Tricks

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Last week was Docker Global Mentor Week, and thought it would be cool (and useful:) to collect our tips & tricks working with Docker on resin.io.

A lot of the info is already available at the Build Optimisations page in the docs, but there were a few that only crystallised recently, after creating and debugging a bunch of projects. The post is here: Our Dockerfile Tips & Tricks, and include such things as:

  • pin software versions
  • clean up after yourself
  • combine RUN statements logically
  • order Dockerfile statements
  • use .dockerignore
  • always add MAINTAINER
  • use a start script
  • create a non-root user

Check out the post for more details! Would be happy to hear if I’ve missed anything interesting that you consider best practice!

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Well, MAINTAINER has just been deprecated, so scratch that recommendation, use a README for the same purpose probably.