[bhupesh]

> Here's a solution that compresses everything into a single 8.7MB layer using tar and an intermediate staging stage: https://gist.github.com/carlosonunez/b6af15062661bf9dfcb8688...

Hey this looks interesting, will try it out. Thanks for writing it!

> That said, in a real-world scenario where I care about readability and maintainability, I'd either write this in Go with gzip-tar compression in the middle (single statically-compiled binaries for the win!) or I'd just use Busybox (~5MB base image) and copy what's missing into it since that base image ships with libc.

Agreed, rewriting was not the option (as mentioned in the beginning). Moreover, It would have taken longer to build a nice TUI interface then it took to dockerize it.