[mshekow]

I agree. I would say that the reason for using docker-slim should be motivated more by security considerations, than trying to reduce the overall image size. If you want to uphold the highest security, you would very regularly (e.g. every couple of days) invalidate the very first (or second layer), because you would be re-pulling the latest base image, and additionally run something like "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade".

So, in the end, using docker-slim does make image downloads (and container start-up time) _less_ efficient in those specific cases where you are releasing new images very often (e.g. daily, or even multiple times per day), assuming that the base image is released less often (e.g. weekly of monthly, as is e.g. the case for Python).

[kylequest]

One of the future capabilities will be auto-generating base images. It'll require several images to figure out the right base image. The easy version of it be will be available in Slim SaaS (it'll have enough data for it). Happy to chat more about the details.