From Dev to Prod: Making Distroless Images Your Default

Security should be a primary driver in IT! Everyone understands the importance of running secure, reliable code at every level of our infrastructure. Since the container revolution began a decade ago with Kubernetes 1.0, traditional IT administrators have lost some control to developers, who can now use Dockerfiles to package and deploy software at unprecedented speed. But at what cost? As organizations adopted runtime security tools to monitor containers and processes, it quickly became clear that pulling base images from public repositories often introduced a flood of vulnerabilities. ...

June 17, 2025 · 4 min · 816 words · Matteo Bisi