@webology when you run “playwright install-deps”, and “playwright install”, are specifying the browser you want? For production usage you prob only want one, by default it’ll install everything it possibly can. From memory, Chromium alone should be eg ~150Mb including apt dependencies on a python-slim docket image.
@satya that's what I'm doing too. The main app runs in that ~200MB and then I use the playwright image as a worker of sorts. I just hate using a bloated/unoptimized image in production if I can avoid it.
@webology The browsers and their dependencies are probably the majority of that. You could probably build a slimmed down one if you include only one browser. Production use shouldn’t need all of them?
@satya I thought I was only getting Chrome but I will rebuild with other options and compare. You might be right that they are bundling more than I asked for.
@satya Since I'm using it from Python, I was starting with the official "mcr.microsoft.com/playwright/python:v1.32.0-jammy" because I have never been able to get it to work with Python's default image.
Thanks for sharing this. Maybe I can use it as a starting point to try again.
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