# How can I minimize the discourse Docker image size?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [August 12, 2025, 6:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-minimize-the-discourse-docker-image-size/378249 "2025-08-12T06:19:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 10:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-minimize-the-discourse-docker-image-size/378249/3 "2025-08-12T10:13:22Z")

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Is this a good place to ask, what are the “slim” builds and can they be made use of by self-hosters?

Where a normal build is presently about 1G, the slim builds are about 600M. (Looking at [this index](https://hub.docker.com/r/discourse/base/tags?page=1&ordering=last_updated) of docker images)

([ask.discourse.com](http://ask.discourse.com) reckons these slim builds are useful for just these kinds of purposes, but I don’t know if the information is good.)

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