[yjftsjthsd-h]

Is that still distroless? At that point you've effectively recreated Alpine with nix IMO; the only thing missing from the image is a package manager.

[kevincox]

Maybe not but so what? If you want some debugging tools add the debugging tools. Who cares if it is "distroless" anymore. I think the main point of "distroless" images is bringing only what you need, if you need debugging tools then bring them.