wagoodman/dive
★ 54,652 stars
Covered in week 2026-W31 · the 2026-07 report
A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image
What dive is
Analyze an image and get a pass/fail result based on the image efficiency and wasted space. Simply set CI=true in the environment when invoking any valid dive command.
From the repository README · read it on GitHub →
Transcript
Docker images mysteriously ballooning in size with no way to see what's taking up space. Dive analyzes each layer, revealing exactly what files, packages, and wasted space are hiding inside your container images. With 44,000 GitHub stars, teams have used it to discover their base images included 200MB of completely unnecessary cache files they could immediately delete. What bloated Docker image would you check first?