When we look at containerising applications, it's good practice to make the image as small as possible with the least amount of bloat as possible. The main reason for this is security focused as it means there's less packages to exploit. But another reason is to make sure resources aren't

So to start off, you will see below two images. They both run the application, but one has more bloat and unnecessary packages installed. The other only has the essential packages installed which greatly reduces the size of the image. For some companies this may not be a big thing

So you’re asking the question “Why use docker?” A good reason to use docker is because it makes setting up services easier. What I mean by this is think back to a time you needed to install a service on a server, but with that service you need to