---
title: "How I reduced the size of my Docker Image by 95%"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-reduced-the-size-of-my-docker-image-by-95--ap72v-fai
source_url: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-i-reduced-the-size-of-my-docker-image-by-95-520a05439300?source=rss----5517fd7b58a6---4
type: article
source: "gitconnected"
published: 2022-10-06T15:04:32.504Z
updated: 2022-10-06T15:04:32.502Z
tags: ["kubernetes", "github", "docker"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 69
comments: 4
language: en
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# How I reduced the size of my Docker Image by 95%

**[gitconnected](https://daily.dev/sources/gc)** · 3 min read · 69 upvotes · 4 comments

## Summary

How I reduced the size of my Docker Image by 95% Reduce theSize of the Docker image using a Multi-Stage build. Using multi-stage builds, you use multiple FROM statements in your Dockerfile.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@qorbani** · 1 upvotes

> Absolutely 👍 I use multistage dockerfile for Go projects as well which will end up building tiny scratch container with only one binary!
>
> Smaller container size means faster to deploy in cluster which makes auto scalability much smoother!

**@liamnguyen** · 0 upvotes

> I would be appreciate more if that is Python Docker image :D

**@whoismatt** · 0 upvotes

> Pretty Cool !!

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