Patent 12124414 was granted and assigned to Red Hat on October, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method includes receiving, at a container registry, a container image including a set of files, determining that at least one file of the set of files is a duplicate of a previously stored container image file at the container registry. The method further includes storing the container image at the container registry with the at least one file of the plurality of files that is a duplicate of the previously stored container image file removed from the container image.