Container Image Management and Registry Questions

Focuses on the lifecycle of container images from build to runtime. Includes building reproducible images, multi stage builds, tagging strategies and semantic versioning, minimizing image size and attack surface, running as non root, and use of minimal base images. Covers pushing to and pulling from registries including public and private registries, authentication and access control, registry lifecycle policies, image caching and garbage collection, image signing and provenance, vulnerability scanning and remediation processes, integration with CI CD pipelines, and operational considerations such as storage costs, replication and geo distribution, and registry high availability.