Docker Image Optimization for Production

Optimizing Docker images is one of the biggest wins for reliability, cost savings, and faster deployments in cloud environments. Bloated images slow down ECS/EKS/AKS/GKE startup, increase registry storage cost, and kill auto‑scaling speed.

Common problems DevOps teams face:

• Images > 1GB slowing deployments
• Using Ubuntu as base for everything
• Missing multi‑stage builds
• Running containers as root
• No image vulnerability scanning

Cloud‑optimized Docker images enable:

• 80–90% reduced image size
• Faster ECS/AKS/GKE scaling
• Lower ECR/ACR/GCR storage bills
• More secure workloads