Using packer with distroless base images

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I’m interested in using packer with the distroless base images from google. These images only have the absolute bare minimum installed, less than the usual alpine images. They don’t even have /bin/bash, /bin/sh, or any shell installed.

Has anyone been able to successfully use packer to create a docker image with a distroless image as a base?

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Hey I am thinking along the same lines as you! Instead of distroless I am working against “scratch” I believe the issue I am encountering is that the /go/bin/packer executable produced by “make dev” is dynamically linked.

How can we produce a statically linked exectuable?