The SLE Base Container Images (BCI) want to create a flexible developer experience that provides, integrates with, and supports language native tools and workflows by offering a self-contained environment targeting a specific version of any given programming language ecosystem to facilitate software development, testing and deployment.​ These images are meant to run on any Linux and K8s distributions, are freely redistributable and come with a pre-configured repository offering the same enterprise grade packages shipped by SUSE flagship product SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The freely available repository offers a lighter set of packages carefully cherry-picked from the official SLES repositories, however it is possible to push an already purchased SLES subscription to these images hence having access to the full universe of packages available.