Dockerfiles are like recipes for your applications, but you can't just throw in the ingredients and hope for the best. Creating an efficient image requires you to be careful about how you utilize the tools at your disposal.
The whole point of containers is to have a small footprint—having a 1 GB+ image for a 100 MB application is not indicative of a small footprint, nor is it efficient at all. Microservices are all about this as well; having small container images for your microservices not only improves performance, but storage utilization decreases security vulnerabilities and points of failure, and it also saves you money.
Container images are stored locally in your host and remotely in a container registry. Public cloud providers charge you for the storage utilization of your registry and not by the image quantity...
