To get the best performance, you'll want to ensure that Docker is configured properly. These are the environments known to produce the best results:
- Linux 4.7 or newer with aufs or overlay2 module.
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or newer with aufs or overlay2 module.
- Docker 17.10 or newer to be available.
It is important to reconfigure host's Docker with this filesystem module. Thus, in your Docker start scripts you must do as following:
docker daemon [...] --storage-driver=overlay2
In case you are using Ubuntu, you can reconfigure Docker easily by updating /etc/docker/daemon.json and restarting Docker:
{
"storage-driver": "overlay2"
}