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[SEJeff]

Example golang multi-stage build:

https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/blob/master/cmd/quer...

[Boulth → SEJeff]

With the caveat that it doesn't build the app inside container, so the multi stage build is kind of underutilized here.

[e12e → Boulth]

You almost certainly want to build the app inside a container, but probably not the same container that result from the build.

[ed: well maybe not for a simple go project, as go has great cross compilation support. But if there's a bit of Javascript/(s)css/static resource munging - a container with a predictable build environment might become appealing. ]

[Boulth → e12e]

Isn't this the purpose of multi stage builds? To have one stage for building it and another, from scratch, to run it?

[SEJeff → Boulth]

It is one of the purposes, yes. The idea being that you don't need build artifacts in containers which run the application.