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Container Image

What Is a Container Image?

A container image is a portable, self-contained package that bundles an application along with its dependencies, libraries, and configuration — used as the standard deployment unit for modern cloud-native applications.

Container images carry their entire dependency stack with them, including base operating system layers, libraries pulled at build time, embedded scripts, and configuration. Each of these can introduce vulnerabilities, license obligations, secrets, or misconfigurations — most of which never appear in the application's source code or manifest. NetRise Turbine analyzes container images as compiled artifacts, surfacing the components and risks that source-based scanning misses.

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Container Image

What Is a Container Image?

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