Alpine is a common example, but you could use scratch and only copy in exactly what you need. Both of these are extremely lightweight.
Having a full OS is helpful for troubleshooting issues, for starters. If one of the nodes is having an issue, it's helpful to be able to log in and examine the state of things.
One pain point of docker/k8s is figuring out networking, and having a container with dns-utils installed is quite handy.
Having a full OS is helpful for troubleshooting issues, for starters. If one of the nodes is having an issue, it's helpful to be able to log in and examine the state of things.
One pain point of docker/k8s is figuring out networking, and having a container with dns-utils installed is quite handy.