The Matrix Reloaded Docker-ized and Multi-Platform Ready (DockerCon 2023)

Whether you're a Docker beginner or a seasoned veteran, this session will help enhance your mastery of Docker containers. Dive into the process of building, optimizing, and deploying multi-platform Docker containers from scratch. Our project for the session will make use of the popular matrix terminal screensaver, cmatrix, originally written in C. We'll explore how, with this source code, we can fully compile and build the cmatrix code within a container regardless of whether we are operating in a Linux, Windows, or Mac Environment. See how to optimize this image so that it is a minimal size and can be run with ease as a container from any architecture including AMD, ARM, ppc64le, and even s390x!
We start by pulling a minimalistic base image from Alpine Linux and will then proceed to construct our Dockerfile. We walk through installing necessary software, compiling source code, handling dependencies, and troubleshooting errors - all within a container environment. We’ll look at the methods to optimize a Dockerfile by merging commands, incorporating best practices, and leveraging multi-stage builds to significantly reduce the container image size. And we push the container image to a registry. This talk focuses on building multi-platform Docker containers, a topic of growing importance in today's diversified tech ecosystem.
Presentation: The Matrix Reloaded: Docker-ized and Multi-Platform Ready
Speaker: James Spurin, Founder, DiveInto
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Docker 101 Tutorial www.docker.com/101-tutorial/
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