Reducing the Size of Python Docker Containers
From The Real Python Podcast by Real Python
June 5, 2026 · 39 min · Episode 298
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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