Building a Docker image factory from scratch in Go (300 lines, no daemon)

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cheikhshift
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Building a Docker image factory from scratch in Go (300 lines, no daemon)

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Hi everyone,

I recently wrote an article about building a Docker image factory from scratch using Go. The goal was to create a minimal, OCI-compliant image builder without relying on a daemon or external cache, all in about 300 lines of standard library code.

I thought this might be interesting to the OSDev community, especially those who work with containerization or are curious about how these tools are implemented under the hood.

Article: https://cheikhhseck.medium.com/building ... 617bf932be

I'd love to hear your thoughts or any feedback you might have on the approach!

Best,
Cheikh
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