Overview

Distroless images contain only the application and its runtime dependencies. They do not contain package managers, shells or any other programs we would expect to find in a standard Linux distribution.

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Read more here: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless

Google Distroless Images

Overview

Google provides distroless base images for most of the leading programming languages and platforms.

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CentOS/RPM-based Dependencies

Overview

WhiteSource identifies CentOS and RPM-based dependencies by checking which packages reside in the /var/lib/yum/yumdb/ folder. Therefore, in order for WhiteSource to support scanning containers created from distroless images which contain CentOS or RPM-based dependencies, the dependencies must reside in an identical format within the /var/lib/yum/yumdb/ folder of the container created from the distroless image as well.

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