Sample Answer
I’d start by profiling the current image: `docker history`, `docker inspect`, and checking the registry to see layer sizes and where the bloat is coming from. In a previous role, our main app image had crept up to ~2.5 GB and deploys to EKS were taking 10–12 minutes and occasionally timing out. I sat down with the lead dev and walked through the Dockerfile line by line. We moved from a full Ubuntu base to a slim Alpine image, split build and runtime into a multi-stage build, and moved dev tools, test dependencies, and build caches into the build stage only. We also pinned versions and consolidated `RUN` commands to reduce layers, and externalized large configs and assets to S3 and ConfigMap/Secrets. Image size dropped to ~650 MB, deploy time went down to 3–4 minutes, and our failed rollout rate fell from ~15% to under 2% without changing the existing Helm workflow.
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