Reduce size of binary about kubeapps HOT 5 CLOSED

I just did a small search around and saw strip and gccgo will help. Will test it

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strip helps, -ldflags "-s -w" also helps to reduce the size a bit. One more tool called upx reduces the binary dramatically to around 4MB. Need to test the output binary...

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I have heard upx can cause issues with Go binaries, but haven't actually seen any issues myself. It may be safer to just tar gzip when uploading

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Let's not use extreme tooling. My main point was about the deps and whether we are pulling way too much stuff which may cause the binary to be inflated.

So I was more looking at a review of our deps and strimming those down rather than tricks to shrink the binary.

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Closing as not too relevant/important. We'll soon be moving to a Helm chart based install.

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