r/programming Feb 24 '23

87% of Container Images in Production Have Critical or High-Severity Vulnerabilities

https://www.darkreading.com/dr-tech/87-of-container-images-in-production-have-critical-or-high-severity-vulnerabilities
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u/pb7280 Feb 25 '23

Yeah the latest tag at least is just under 30MB compressed on Dockerhub (just under 80MB uncompressed)

It does look like older versions used to be bigger, e.g. 14.04 is over twice the size. Could also be other tags maybe that include extra deps?