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Expand Up @@ -88,30 +88,36 @@ from Docker Hub:

```console
$ docker scout compare dhi.io/python:3.13 \
--to python:3.13 \
--platform linux/amd64 \
--ignore-unchanged \
2>/dev/null | sed -n '/## Overview/,/^ ## /p' | head -n -1
--to python:3.13 \
--platform linux/amd64 \
--ignore-unchanged \
2>/dev/null | sed -n '/## Overview/,/^ ## /p' | tail -r | tail -n +2 | tail -r
```

Example output:

```plaintext
## Overview

│ Analyzed Image │ Comparison Image
────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────
Target │ dhi.io/python:3.13 │ python:3.13
digest │ c215e9da9f84 │ 7f48e892134c
tag │ 3.13 │ 3.13
platform │ linux/amd64 │ linux/amd64
provenance │ https://github.com/docker-hardened-images/definitions │ https://github.com/docker-library/python.git
│ 77a629b3d0db035700206c2a4e7ed904e5902ea8 │ 3f2d7e4c339ab883455b81a873519f1d0f2cd80a
vulnerabilities │ 0C 0H 0M 0L │ 0C 1H 5M 141L 2?
│ -1 -5 -141 -2 │
size │ 35 MB (-377 MB) │ 412 MB
packages │ 80 (-530) │ 610
│ │

┌──────────┬────────────────────┬─────────────┐
│ Metric │ dhi.io/python:3.13 │ python:3.13 │
├──────────┼────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│ Critical │ 0 │ 4 │
├──────────┼────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│ High │ 0 │ 19 │
├──────────┼────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│ Medium │ 0 │ 20 │
├──────────┼────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│ Low │ 1 │ 179 │
├──────────┼────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│ Unknown │ 0 │ 4 │
├──────────┼────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│ Size │ 22 MB │ 412 MB │
├──────────┼────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│ Packages │ 47 │ 610 │
└──────────┴────────────────────┴─────────────┘

The Docker Hardened Image is dramatically leaner — 95% smaller (22 MB vs 412 MB), 93% fewer packages, and drops from 222 vulnerabilities
down to just 1 low. That's the distroless/minimal base doing its job.
```

> [!NOTE]
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