Why does the container have google-cloud-sdk in it?

[intendo]

I can't see why the google-cloud-sdk is in the container.
It is over half the size of the image.
The google-cloud-sdk is over 880 Megabytes.

[azat-badretdin]

Thank you for your report, Darren! Would you mind illustrating that? Thanks!

[intendo]

Add the following to the main Dockerfile to remove 880 Megabytes of disk space:
RUN rm -rf /usr/share/google-cloud-sdk /usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk

[azat-badretdin]

Thank you, Darren.

We will investigate why do we have this in our image.

[christiam]

I can't see why the google-cloud-sdk is in the container.

gsutil is needed in when downloading BLAST databases from GCP whenever Requester Pays is enabled on a bucket.
In BLAST+ 2.16.0 we have made efforts to reduce the size of the ncbi/blast docker image; this led to about a 50% reduction in size: https://hub.docker.com/r/ncbi/blast/tags

The google-cloud-sdk is over 880 Megabytes.

This is a known issue: GoogleCloudPlatform/gsutil#1732