Documentation for gcr.io/distroless/python3

Image Contents

This image contains a minimal Linux, Python-based runtime.

Specifically, the image contains everything in the base image, plus:

• Python 3 and its dependencies.
  • 3.11 on debian 12
  • 3.13 on debian 13
• No shell

ldconfig and ctypes

On debian13+ we include a pre-generated ld.so.cache to support user/framework calls to ctypes.util.find_library(). If a user modifies the image by adding a new library, it will not be found in the cache without calling ldconfig to refresh the cache.

Usage

The entrypoint of this image is set to "python", so this image expects users to supply a path to a .py file in the CMD.

See the Python Hello World directory for an example.