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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Specialist_Square818 on 2025-02-23 23:31:31+00:00.

Hi everyone,

I have already posted about this in r/cybersecurity and in r/docker but realised while searching Reddit that the size of containers is something that has been discussed here many times as it can be a pain for self-hosting!

We are a bunch of academics who have worked on debloating tools for containers and we just released our code with an MIT license to Github:

A full description of the work is here:

I attach a table with the results for debloating the top 20 containers pulled from dockerhub. We would love if you give the tool a try and tell us what you think!