# It all started with a commit: Celebrating 6 years of Distroless

DevFeed: [It all started with a commit: Celebrating 6 years of Distroless](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/it-all-started-with-a-commit-celebrating-6-years-of-distroless-13129.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/it-all-started-with-a-commit-celebrating-6-years-of-distroless>)

Published: 2023-04-12T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Chainguard: Unchained](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/chainguard-unchained.md>)

Topics: [distroless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/distroless.md>), [Containers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/containers.md>), [supply-chain-security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/supply-chain-security.md>), [container images](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/container-images.md>), [sigstore](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sigstore.md>), [chainguard images](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chainguard-images.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [vulnerability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vulnerability.md>), [bazel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bazel.md>), [Debian](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debian.md>), [vulnerability management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vulnerability-management.md>), [Go](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/go.md>)

Tags: [bazel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bazel.md>), [c-plus-plus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/c-plus-plus.md>), [chainguard](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chainguard.md>), [chainguard-images](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chainguard-images.md>), [containers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/containers.md>), [debian](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debian.md>), [digital-signatures](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/digital-signatures.md>), [distroless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distroless.md>), [distroless-containers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distroless-containers.md>), [go](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/go.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [release-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release-engineering.md>), [sigstore](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sigstore.md>), [software-supply-chain-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-supply-chain-security.md>), [verify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/verify.md>), [vulnerability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vulnerability.md>), [vulnerability-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vulnerability-management.md>)

## AI overview

The article commemorates six years of Distroless, describing its goal of creating more secure and efficient container images by removing non-essential components. It covers the Bazel-based build tooling, language runtimes, Kubernetes adoption, vulnerability-management benefits, and later integration with Sigstore for container signing and authenticity verification. It also introduces the subsequent development of Chainguard Images.

## Source excerpt

The goal of Distroless is to provide a more secure and efficient way to package and run software in containers by using only essential components.