Summary

In this chapter, we saw that the popularity of using OSS tools has dramatically increased in recent years. There are several mature OSS tools available today that many organizations confidently use in their production environments. Also, running software such as containers on Kubernetes alongside containerized client applications is a quick way to equip the applications with appropriate backend technologies. But using container images available on public container registries such as Docker Hub is not a secure way of deploying such OSS tools. And hence, most organizations do not encourage such practices and try to employ some internal mechanisms to generate internally curated container images for such OSS consumption. Having such efforts undertaken internally not only wastes a lot of resources but also discourages developer teams from experimenting with various tools or wasting their productivity in waiting for getting them ready for consumption. And that is where VAC comes...