Container Security for SREs: The Practical Checklist

Security Is Part of Reliability SREs think about availability, latency, and throughput. But a security breach is just another type of incident often the worst kind. Here's the container security checklist I use. The Base Image Problem # Bad: 800MB image with everything including gcc FROM ubuntu:22.04 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y python3 python3-pip COPY . /app RUN pip install -r requirements.txt # Good: 50MB image with only what's needed FROM python:3.11-slim AS builder COPY