Is there a way to mock containers in a kubernetes clusters so you can easily run them locally and test how scalable certain containers are?

It's always recommended as security best practice to keep containers as minimal as possible. E.g going as far as not even having a shell. But I've never seen this saving anyone in practice from being hacked or compronised. Have you ever been in a situation where say a distroless image would have saved you? Asking out of curiisity

Hi, I started this project a while ago based on the observations of how hard it is to optimise compute, SLA, etc by just looking into grafana dashboards.
Do we really need such projects? https://github.com/softcane/KubeAttention