I have used hello-world Docker image to create a deployment and test the pods running. But that image is meant to terminate after it's run once. Is there a light weight image I can use? Like a lightweight server? Thanks.
You could replace the distroless base image with an Alpine based image.
It is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox
A smaller image takes less disk size & less time to upload.
Recommendation is node:8-alpine
You can use a nginx container. The apline images of NGINX are very small and lightweight.