"Distroless" containers are pretty cool for making deployment images. I feel like a better name could have been chosen, because ultimately you are relying on a distribution and how they operate unless you're building an image from scratch and copying in your self-compiled dependencies.

I build my own distroless-like images for personal use using Fedora and RHEL, though I do follow the ubi-micro[0] build steps and include a tiny bit of user space components to enable debugging.

[0] https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/ubi9-micro/61...