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What problem do multi-stage builds solve?

They let you use one stage with full build tooling (compilers, SDKs, build caches) to produce artifacts, then copy only the needed output into a separate, minimal final stage — so the shipped production image doesn't carry build-time tooling, dramatically reducing size and attack surface.

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