How to: Base Operating System
Distroless images are based on Debian 12 (bookworm). Images are explicitly tagged with Debian version suffixes (e.g. `-debian12`). Specifying an image without the distribution will currently select `-debian12` images, but that will change in the future to a newer version of Debian. It can be useful to reference the distribution explicitly, to prevent breaking builds when the next Debian version is released.