About this episode

This episode discusses methods to reduce the size of Python Docker containers and includes insights from Christopher Trudeau on related articles and projects.

How can you easily reduce the size of a Python Docker container? What are the exceptions you should catch in your code? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week with another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.

People in this episode

Host: Real Python

Guest: Christopher Trudeau

Topics covered

• Python
• Docker
• Containerization
• Software Development
• Programming

Keywords

• Python
• Docker
• containers
• size reduction
• programming
• software development

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