Interview Q&A / Docker & Kubernetes

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Docker & Kubernetes interview questions

Images, containers, Dockerfiles, pods and deployments, from first principles.

  1. What is the difference between alpine, slim and distroless base images?

    alpine is a tiny distro using musl libc and apk. slim variants are trimmed Debian images using glibc. distroless images contain only your app and its runtime, with no shell or package manager, giving the smallest attack surface.

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