As we enter the holiday season, online shopping and payment systems are gearing up for higher traffic and workloads. Ensuring that these applications can handle the increased demand without slowing down or crashing is critical for providing a smooth and efficient experience for customers. One way to improve the performance and reliability of these applications is by using chiselled Ubuntu images in your containerised deployment.
Chiselled Ubuntu images are inspired by the Distroless concept, meaning they contain only your application and its runtime dependencies, without any additional operating system-level packages or libraries. This makes them lightweight, secure, and efficient. Note, there isn’t one chiselled Ubuntu base image, but rather an infinite number of possible slices of the Ubuntu distribution that you can create chisel for your use case. Last August, we released the…
