Distroless

It’s 2026 and I still receive questions from customers and colleagues about why they should adopt a hardened container image catalog, why it matters, and how to justify the investment internally. I hear it from security engineers, from architects, from technical leads at companies that are otherwise doing serious work on their security posture. The honest answer is short: European regulations like DORA and NIS2 require it, and from a purely technological standpoint it is the logical evolution of how we have always managed infrastructure. Both arguments stand independently. Together they leave no room for debate. ...

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. ...