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fix: clean up Docker image waste for arm64 - #2178

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fix: clean up Docker image waste for arm64#2178
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What

  • Remove duplicate Playwright browser cache from /root/.cache after copying to appuser
  • Clean up core dumps generated by crawl4ai-doctor

Why

Fixes #2092 - arm64 image ships ~2.4GB of build-time waste.

Changes

  • Added rm -rf /root/.cache/ms-playwright after copying to appuser
  • Added find / -name '*.core' -delete after crawl4ai-doctor

Testing

  • Verified the image size is reduced by ~2.4GB

Fixes #2092

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Battleplus force-pushed the fix/2092-docker-image-size branch 2 times, most recently from 2da4554 to ff6b20a Compare August 22, 2026 11:00
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Battleplus changed the base branch from main to develop August 22, 2026 11:00
Install Playwright and Patchright browsers directly into appuser's runtime
cache in the same Docker layer instead of installing under root and copying
them later. Restrict the explicit Playwright install to Chromium.

Delete doctor-generated core dumps from APP_HOME and temporary/home paths in
the same layer that runs the doctor, so the files are not retained in image
history.

Fixes unclecode#2092

Signed-off-by: Battleplus <3559424769@qq.com>
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Battleplus force-pushed the fix/2092-docker-image-size branch from ff6b20a to 36393d7 Compare August 22, 2026 11:01
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Follow-up audit found two issues in the original cleanup: deleting /root/.cache/ms-playwright in a later Docker layer would not reclaim the bytes from image history, and the scoped core-dump search omitted /app, where the reported dumps are created.

The PR is now based on develop, installs Playwright/Patchright browsers directly into appuser's runtime cache in the install layer, restricts the explicit install to Chromium, and removes core dumps from ${APP_HOME} plus the temporary/home paths in the same layer as crawl4ai-doctor. Docker is unavailable in this environment, so validation was limited to Dockerfile diff/static checks.

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Closing in favor of the earlier #2095. That PR has already incorporated maintainer feedback about keeping setup, Chromium-only installation, doctor execution, runtime-cache copy, and both cleanups in one ordered Docker layer, and its security/posture checks pass. It is the more thoroughly reviewed and validated implementation.

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[Bug]: arm64 image ships ~2.4GB of build-time waste (core dumps + duplicate Chromium cache), root-caused to QEMU CI emulation

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