Canonical blog mentions Ubuntu Minimal Docker images: https://canonical.com/blog/minimal-ubuntu-released. When I search Docker Hub for Ubuntu Minimal I get 10,000 results for Ubuntu Minimal where the second one seems to be a normal Ubuntu: https://hub.docker.com/_/ubuntu. I don't see any minimal names or tags. Where is the Ubuntu Minimal Docker image?
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According to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Minimal and accepted answer to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52063219/minimal-ubuntu-docker-image-is-claimed-to-be-29mb-so-why-does-docker-images-c, there is no publicly available Docker image for Ubuntu Minimal. Additionally, the images Canonical publishes are dated: 16.04 and 18.04.
I ended up using Debian slim: bookworm-slim from https://hub.docker.com/_/debian.
Minimum Docker image based on bookworm-slim is 73.4MB and one based on ubuntu:22.04 is 77.8MB in size.
Paul Jurczak
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