Why does the docker image take so much space?

[Chopper (Martial)]

This is the question about the 10GO min, what in the docker container take so much place ? A default install of Discourse is ~5-6go, so what takes so much space with an empty forum ?

Thanks

[Mittineague]

Did you try the CLI command
docker df -v

If you’re talking about requirements instead of “normal” use, certain operations (eg. backup) temporarily use more space than is normally used.

[mpalmer (Matt Palmer)]

This has been covered before, in some detail. Check the archives, I know I’ve answered this question at least once before.

[Chopper (Martial)]

This one ?

@mpalmer

To answer the question in your title: Discourse takes up a lot of space because it’s significantly easier for everyone if we just ship a copy of everything above the kernel in one neat little package, rather than trying to shoehorn everything into whatever crazy setup people already have on their machine.

from Why does discourse take up so much disk space? - #2 by mpalmer

[mpalmer (Matt Palmer)]

Hmm, I thought I’d done a longer-form explanation than that somewhere. That one you found isn’t as wall-of-texty as I tend to produce when roused to action.