Revisit base container image for AWS services

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  1. distroless

    🥑 Language focused docker images, minus the operating system.

    Debian slim and UBI are easy to use in the direction of creating a very small image while taking into account the use of a package manager, but on the other hand, they are too large to satisfy the demand to create a minimum image for a specific language environment. If you want to satisfy such a demand, Distroless image may be the right choice for you.

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  3. apko

    Build OCI images from APK packages directly without Dockerfile

    apko, an new OCI container image builder

  4. melange

    build APKs from source code (by chainguard-dev)

    Developed our own apk package builder called melenge

  5. busybox

    Docker Official Image packaging for Busybox (by docker-library)

    The busybox container is, as the name suggests, a base image that contains the minimum environment for BusyBox to work. It is also one of the official Docker images. The actual Dockerfile for creating this image is as follows:

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