Container image security part 2: Minimal images
This article provides an overview of free and open-source minimal container images for bare Linuxes (into which you would copy native binaries compiled with C/C++, Go, or Rust), PHP, Python, Java, C#, and Node.js, from the image vendors Google distroless, Chainguard, Ubuntu, and Azure Linux. It explains why minimal images matter, how they are defined, and their general pros and cons.