Hardened Images Need Flexibility, Not Rigidity

Hardened Images Need Flexibility, Not Rigidity

Hardened container images and distroless software are the new hotness as startups and incumbents alike pile into the fast-growing market. In theory, hardened images provide not only a smaller attack surface but operational simplicity. In practice, there remains a fundamental – and often painful – tension between the promised security perfection of hardened images and the reality of building software atop those images and running them in producti…