For platform engineering teams
Koala Base Container Images
Drop-in replacement with a familiar Debian-like toolchain. Built with precise SBOM control for security and transparency.
The Minimal Container Dilemma
While Hardened distroless container images may have been a much talked about buzzword in the last few years, changing your infrastructure to move to hardened images has been a hard challenge across the industry.
Primary challenge stems from the lack of familiarity with newer toolchain (most hardened images are built on some fork of alpine ↗) and/or missing toolchain to work with base container images (in case of distroless ↗).
KoalaLab understood these issues and tackled on modernising legacy linux distro(debian) for a container-first design to provide same security(of distroless containers) with a familiar toolchain(apt) ↗
Understanding the container bloat problem
KoalaLab started with understanding where the container bloat stemmed from & those issue came from
Bloated Package Universe
Debian's package creation includes unnecessary maintainer scripts
Package Manager Footprint
APT leaves behind significant overhead
Non-Essential "Essentials"
Many packages marked as essential aren't actually needed in containers
This bloat creates a larger attack surface with more CVEs, while consuming extra resources and slowing deployments.
Koala's container-first approach, reimagined Debian for a container-first world:
Bootstrapped Debian-like Distro
Created with only essential base packages
DebFlow
Modernized OSS deb package creation process
Minimal Package Universe
Proprietary repository where all packages are minimal by design
C(APT)ain
A portable Go-based package manager that's fully compatible with Debian
Optimized Container Creation
Using the bootstrapped distro and minimal package universe
Customize your image. Your way
The combination of C(APT)ain & minimal package universe allows for a very precise control over the SBOM of the containers; enabling security and allowing for custom use-cases when required.
Koala's enterprise plans offer C(CAPT)ain and our minimal package universe along with the Hardened "out-of-the-box" base container images. This combination helps with any enteprise-centric custom use-case your teams might have.
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