The Matrix Reloaded - Dockerized and Multi-Platform Ready

Explore the process of building, optimizing, and deploying multi-platform Docker containers from scratch in this 39-minute conference talk from DockerCon 2023. Learn how to enhance your Docker container skills by working with the popular matrix terminal screensaver, cmatrix, originally written in C. Discover techniques for compiling and building cmatrix code within a container across Linux, Windows, and Mac environments. Gain insights into optimizing Docker images for minimal size and running containers effortlessly on various architectures, including AMD, ARM, ppc64le, and s390x. Follow along as the speaker demonstrates pulling a minimalistic Alpine Linux base image, constructing a Dockerfile, installing necessary software, handling dependencies, and troubleshooting errors in a container environment. Explore methods for optimizing Dockerfiles through command merging, best practices implementation, and multi-stage builds to reduce container image size significantly. Learn how to push the container image to a registry and understand the growing importance of building multi-platform Docker containers in today's diverse tech ecosystem.