Lightning Talk: What Made Your Container Fat? Visualizing the Size of Container Layers
summary
A small web app visualizes which layer inflates an image by showing file system usage per layer and highlighting the culprit among dozens (the demo mentions ~20 layers). It extracts images from registry or local archive, supports multiple architectures, stores results in SQLite, and runs as a containerized app. Visualization uses sunburst graphs and offers side-by-side comparison with color-coded diffs (red bigger, green smaller, yellow same, blue new), letting users click to zoom into specific files and folders.
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- 0:00Start
- 0:38What problem is this solving?
- 3:58Image Comparison
- 4:38Features
- 5:17Give it a try yourself!
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