You might be interested in distroless[1] base images. The repo links to a talk that goes into more depth, but the basic idea is to a use minimal language-speci

You might be interested in distroless[1] base images. The repo links to a talk that goes into more depth, but the basic idea is to a use minimal language-specific base for your runtime instead of e.g. statically linking all of ubuntu into your image. The base images are built with bazel's docker rules[2], so you get reproducible builds. [1] https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/distroless https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/distroless [2] https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_docker https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_docker