chore(docker): create distroless final image #175
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Description
Distroless images have less vulnerabilities and are safer in production environments. Additionally, they will have no shell access and that reduces the attack surface even further.
ealen/echo-server:latest vulnerabilities
ealen/echo-server:local vulnerabilities
Usually, using distroless images also result in reduced final docker image size, however, in the case of
ealen/echo-server
, that resulted in excess of ~6MiB 🤷 👇Comparing the size of the images
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Motivation and Context
It will help further secure the software supply chain. Most of the people using the codes in this repository use it out of the box, without further modifications. This distroless final image will give them a good and sane default.
How Has This Been Tested
Yes, it is working and functional.
Types of changes
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