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

Claim 11:
12. A computing device, comprising:
a memory; and
a processor device coupled to the memory to:
access first dependency information associated with an application and that identifies a first set of dependencies necessary to generate a first application container image for the application, 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;
select 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 the first dependency container image lacking at least one dependency identified in the first set of dependencies; and
generate a new dependency container image using the first dependency container image and the at least one dependency, the new dependency 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 a layer that includes the at least one dependency.