DevOps Zero to Hero: Optimizing Flask Deployment with Multistage Docker

As developers, we understand the importance of efficient containerization, especially when deploying applications. The size of our Docker images can significantly impact deployment times, resource utilization, and overall performance. Traditional Docker builds often result in larger images than necessary, leading us to seek a more efficient solution.

Introducing Multistage Docker Builds Enter multistage Docker builds - a game-changer for optimizing containerized applications. In this blog, I'll walk you through how I implemented multistage builds for a Flask application, reducing image size and enhancing deployment speed.

Introducing Multistage Docker Builds The Flask App Let's start with a simple Flask application: python