On: Crafting container images without Dockerfiles

[bravetraveler]

I tend to agree, but I think the angle they're going after is the mental load of ensuring consistency in those layers

A very simple example of this is installing packages and clearing the generated metadata all in one chain of a single RUN.

It gets more complicated when you look at it from the 'reproducible builds' POV; subtle binary changes from using things like dates/timestamps