Optimizing containers with distroless images
Distroless containers are one of the latest trends in the container world. They are promising in that they consider all the aspects of optimizing containers for the Enterprise environment. There are three important things you should consider while optimizing containers – performance, security, and cost.
Performance
You don't spin containers out of thin air. You must download images from your container registry and then run the container out of the image. Each step uses network and disk I/O. The bigger the image, the more resources it consumes, and the less performance you get out of it. Therefore, a smaller Docker image naturally performs better.
Security
Security is one of the most important aspects of the current IT landscape. Companies usually focus a lot on this aspect and invest a lot of money and time in it. Since containers are a relatively new technology, they are generally prone to hacking, so appropriately...
