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2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
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2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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ffk·Sep 29, 2017

The smallest useful container I know of is 129B. It was created to test how many containers docker can spin up while reducing the overhead of what was in the container itself. tianon/sleeping-beauty latest 2e8193709fa7 6 months ago 129B https://github.com/tianon/dockerfiles/tree/master/sleeping-b...

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damm·Feb 19, 2014

I think there's a lot of assumptions made, and there are a lot of assumptions made about your base image. The Ubuntu base image (or how it's built) can be found https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-ubuntu Some excellent examples of how to use them with /sbin/init can be found https://github.com/tianon/dockerfiles/tree/master/sbin-init/... Not everyone who uses Docker uses CRON, nor considers them long-term containers; rather short term process containers. Docker is growing and how we use docker will change so be flexible and realize what you considered useful yesterday may not be required tomorrow. We will have to re-learn best practices and keep learning after that. Note, the Ubuntu image isn't made by Ubuntu. Maybe Phusion should host their own Ubuntu image just for sakes of sakes.

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