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Travis CI arm infrastructure seems a bit funny (their container runtime might be running rootless). I had to test with However, the Docker image should work on a proper ARM host. |
A minimal distroless container is smaller (faster to download), more secure, and follows general Linux best practices for system administration. * Old image size: 16MB * New image size: 8MB You can learn more about minimal containers in my write up on [docker images for production][1]. [1]: https://sam.gleske.net/blog/engineering/2022/10/25/guide-to-production-docker-images.html Hardening recommendation ------------------------ Only symlink `/bin/sh`, `/usr/bin/find`, and `/usr/bin/xargs` to busybox since those are the only utilities necessary for your Docker image. However, if you're trying to provide a little more scripting flexibility to users I decided to leave in the full busybox tool set. Dockerfile changes ------------------ * X86_64 and ARM64 support * Make use of multistage build. * Final image is assembled from scratch and follows Linux best practices.
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What is distroless?
A minimal distroless container is smaller (faster to download), more secure, and follows general Linux best practices for system administration.
You can learn more about minimal containers in my write up on docker images for production.
Hardening recommendation
Only symlink
/bin/sh,/usr/bin/find, and/usr/bin/xargsto busybox since those are the only utilities necessary for your Docker image. However, if you're trying to provide a little more scripting flexibility to users I decided to leave in the full busybox tool set.Dockerfile changes