Distroless vs Alpine: Which Base Image Is More Secure?
Alpine is tiny and familiar; distroless is tinier and shell-free. The right choice depends on what you value more — debuggability or a minimal attack surface. Here is the honest tradeoff.
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Alpine is tiny and familiar; distroless is tinier and shell-free. The right choice depends on what you value more — debuggability or a minimal attack surface. Here is the honest tradeoff.
Scanning a container after it deploys is an incident report. Scanning it in the pipeline is a one-line diff. Here is how to gate builds on image scans without drowning developers in false positives.
Your registry is the single point every image passes through — and a favorite target for attackers who want to poison many deployments at once. Here is how to lock it down end to end.
The API server is the front door to your cluster — every kubectl command, controller, and kubelet talks to it. If it is misconfigured, nothing else you harden matters. Here is how to lock it down.
A practical guide to container image scanning: when to scan, what to block, what scanners like Snyk miss, and how to build a policy that actually gets remediated.
Wildcard verbs, cluster-admin bindings, and forgotten service account tokens turn RBAC into a rubber stamp. Here is how to design roles that contain a breach instead of amplifying it.
PodSecurityPolicy is gone. Pod Security Admission and the three Pod Security Standards are how you enforce baseline and restricted profiles in modern Kubernetes — here is how to adopt them without breaking workloads.
Every binary, library, and shell in a Docker image is attack surface. Here is how to strip an image down to the bytes your app actually needs — and cut your CVE count by up to 95%.
Scanning a container image is easy. Scanning it at the right moment, cutting the false positives, and gating deploys on the result is where most programs fall apart.
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