Tips for Optimizing Docker Builds

Docker images are used as the primary image in the Docker executor. They are the blueprints for containers, providing the instructions for how a container is spawned. In this post, I'm going to address a few often-overlooked concepts that will help with optimizing the Docker image development and build process.

How Do You Build a Docker Image?

Let's start with a brief description of the Docker build process. It is a process triggered by running the docker build command using the Docker CLI tool.