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Multi-stage Dockerfiles with perl and perl-slim
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The benefits of using multi-stage Docker builds is well-known. Using multi-stage builds with a pure Perl setup is trivial -- all it involves is copying the /usr/local/lib/perl5 directory:

FROM perl:5.28 as builder
COPY cpanfile cpanfile
RUN cpanm --installdeps .

FROM perl:5.28-slim
COPY --from=builder /usr/local/lib/perl5 /usr/local/lib/perl5
# Do other work here

You can also copy all of /usr/local/. Either way, this is a great way to cut down image size. I was able to reduce the size of an image from almost a gigabyte to some 200MB.

If you're dealing with some compiled dependencies, then this process probably isn't so simple.

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