Distroless
Medium — good to knowCI/CD & DevOps
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Distroless images are containers on a diet. No bash, no apt, no utilities — just your app and its runtime. Hackers can't exploit what doesn't exist. The tradeoff: debugging is a nightmare because there's nothing to debug with.
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