Optimizing containers with distroless images
Distroless containers are one of the latest trends in the container world. They are promising because they consider all the aspects of optimizing containers for the Enterprise environment. You should consider three important things while optimizing containers – performance, security, and cost.
Performance
You don’t make 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 from 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 on this aspect and invest a lot of money and time. Since containers are a relatively new technology, they are vulnerable to hacking, so appropriately securing your containers...
