Tag: distroless

Distroless containers are tiny, secure, and loved by security teams, until you need to debug one at 2 AM. Here's when Google distroless actually pays off vs when it's just container hipster points.

Alpine gives you a shell and apk; Distroless gives you nothing but the app. Compare attack surface, image size, and multi-stage build complexity.

Distroless images contain only your app and its runtime, no shell, no package manager, no attack surface. Here's how to build them.