In modern DevOps and SRE practices, using minimalist base container images—such as Google's **Distroless** or completely empty **scratch** images—has become the standard for security and performance. These images lack command shells (`bash`, `sh`), system package managers (`apt`, `apk`), debugging utilities (`curl`, `wget`, `tcpdump`, `strace`), and even basic utilities like `ls` or `cat`.
