Monthly Archives: October 2018

Register for our webinar – ‘Introduction to Docker”Introduction to Docker’

Dec 5, 2018 at 10am BST & 4pm BST
The introduction to Docker series is proving popular with our Blog readers, so we have decided to make it the subject for our next webinar.

Docker is a relatively new technology, only appearing just over five years ago. It has become integral to modern continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery in an Agile world.

In this 45 minute webinar, presented by Niall Cooling, he will introduce Docker and how it can be used in an […]

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An Introduction to Docker for Embedded Developers – Part 5 Multi-Stage Builds

Director at Feabhas Limited
Co-Founder and Director of Feabhas since 1995.
Niall has been designing and programming embedded systems for over 30 years. He has worked in different sectors, including aerospace, telecomms, government and banking.
His current interest lie in IoT Security and Agile for Embedded Systems.
Niall Cooling

Following on from the previous post, where we spent time reducing the docker image size, in this post I’d like to cover a couple of useful practices to further improve our docker image:

Copying local files rather than pulling from the web
Simplifying builds using a multi-stage build

Copying in Local Files

So far, when installing the GCC-Arm compiler, we have pulled it from the web using wget. This technique can suffer from two issues:

Web links are notoriously fragile
https adds complexity to the packages […]

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