Practitioners’ Guide to Chiseled Containers: Smaller, Faster, Safer

Containerization has transformed how teams build and deploy applications, but it’s also introduced new operational challenges. Traditional container images often include far more components than necessary — shell utilities, package managers and libraries that never get used by the running application. This bloat increases image sizes, slows deployment and broadens the attack surface.

To meet modern performance and security demands, the industry should consider shifting toward more minimal, deterministic images. This is where chiseled…