rclone (~50 MB installed) is not used by any Argo step that runs in
ci-builder-cpu. The only Argo step that does use rclone
(build-web-dashboard) runs in node:22-alpine and apk-installs rclone
itself. Removing here saves an unused ~50 MB layer in every
ci-builder-cpu pull on every CI compile pod cold-start.
Tools deliberately KEPT despite the original task suggestion to remove
them:
- terragrunt + tofu — used by terragrunt-apply step in
ci-pipeline-template.yaml (runs in ci-builder-cpu)
- kubectl — used by apply-argo-templates step in
ci-pipeline-template.yaml (runs in ci-builder-cpu)
Removing those would break those pipeline steps.
Expected impact: ~50 MB image size reduction, ~3-7 sec cold-pull
savings per compile pod. Smaller than the original ~250 MB estimate
because terragrunt/tofu/kubectl had to stay.
Validation: visually inspected Dockerfile syntax (no docker daemon
available locally). Grepped infra/k8s/argo/*.yaml for rclone usage —
only build-web-dashboard (node:22-alpine) references it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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