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This is awesome - is there any thing similar for Azure? Or possible 3rd party solutions that do the same? We don’t leverage GCP but I am very envious of this feature. Would love the community to help point me in the right direction to get same functionality - mainly not having to maintain and patch Ubuntu 16.0.4 images

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The good news is you don't have to use GCP! The very nice people over there have made them available for anyone -

https://cloud.google.com/container-registry/docs/managed-bas...

So, to be clear, no matter what cloud you use, if you create a Dockerfile like the following:

   FROM launcher.gcr.io/google/ubuntu16_04:latest
   CMD echo "foobar"

This should work fine.

Disclosure: I work at Microsoft on Azure.

You moved to MS?!? Your about section still mentions your Google address. Good luck!

Whoops! Updated :)

Thanks!

Thanks for pointing this out! Great news!

Yeah, it's called Red Hat Enterprise Linux ;-) It's available on all the cloud providers and has a better API/ABI guarantee as well as very, very well defined commitments to patching and lifecycle :-)

I think they call it "serverless"

My understanding is that those are more for “functions” or business logic. How can I leverage that for pointing my docker image to a 3rd party mainted base image?

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