Patent ID: 11934811
Assignee: RED HAT, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A method comprising:
accessing first dependency information associated with an application and that identifies a first set of dependencies necessary to generate a first application container image, each dependency in the first set of dependencies comprising one or more files needed to generate the first application container image and to execute the first application container image;
selecting a first dependency container image of one or more dependency container images, each dependency container image including a layer that includes one or more dependencies; and
generating the first application container image from the first dependency container image and any dependencies identified in the first set of dependencies that are not contained in the first dependency container image, the first application container image including a layer that includes a copy of the layer that includes the one or more dependencies from the first dependency container image and pointers to the first set of dependencies.