Slim and Secure Container Images with Slim.ai

Bret is joined by Martin Wimpress and Pieter van Noordennen from Slim.ai to discuss some ways to slim down your Docker images and reduce the attack surface of your containers in the process.

Many companies and projects have tried to do similar things before - Slim Images, Alpine Images, Distro List, Build Packs, and even Docker tried a few years back, to create intelligence and guidance around migrating legacy apps into slim production quality images. Those efforts were scrapped in 2019. The dual mandate of generating Docker images - easy to understand and as minimal as possible, with the lowest CVE vulnerability count - was not achieved by any of those projects.
 

Automation and intelligence like Slim.ai is the future of building container images and also the future of complex monoliths and legacy apps with a lot of dependencies.

Streamed live on YouTube on July 28, 2022. Includes demos.

Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #180)

★Topics★
Docker Slim
Slim.ai

★Martin Wimpress★
Martin Wimpress on Twitter

★Pieter van Noordennen★
Pieter van Noordennen on Twitter

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• (00:00) - DDT MAIN
• (00:04) - Intro
• (00:53) - Custom intro
• (04:32) - Main show
• (04:51) - How Slim.ai started
• (07:07) - Complexities of shipping images
• (08:53) - DockerSlim
• (10:27) - Setting the stage for demo
• (13:02) - Demo intro
• (13:28) - Demo
• (13:33) - Bret's Question
• (22:20) - Different container composition options
• (23:36) - Demo intro 2
• (23:42) - Bret loves Docker Desktop and Extensions
• (27:28) - Pausing Docker
• (27:54) - The extension is the same as the SaaS
• (28:30) - It's free
• (29:03) - Demo?
• (29:03) - Distroless and optimized starting points
• (34:47) - Build engineering nightmare
• (36:15) - Not just security considerations
• (39:03) - Understanding dependency differences
• (40:34) - Question
• (42:03) - Slim cli
• (46:08) - Getting started
• (47:38) - Outro

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