Can Discourse ship frequent Docker images that do not need to be bootstrapped?

[ibnesayeed (Sawood Alam)]

@mpalmer, if suitable, please merge the following thread here. I was thinking of posting here in the first place, but I thought that this thread is already loaded with problem descriptions and justifications, so a potential solution perhaps would be better suited in a separate thread.

Docker image improvements using multi-stage builds and build args

People coming from the Docker background, but new to Discourse, often seem to wonder about question like: How the Docker image is setup? Why do we need a bootstrap process? Why is there a launcher script? Why can’t we just use pure Docker or compose based setup? There is a long conversation about these things already. @sam has recently summarized some long-term priorities while responding to a similar set of questions in the following points: That said, I think some recent advances in the …