# Image Complexity

> The degree to which packaging everything into a container image grows the image and its maintenance burden.

Record: `lexicon:image-complexity`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Resource Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/resource-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-image-complexity

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Host-Coupled Deployment](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/host-coupled-deployment.md) and before [Image Definition](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/image-definition.md).

## Category

- [Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/portability-infrastructure-deployment.md)

## In tension with

- [Containerization](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/containerization.md)
- [Containerization / Image Complexity](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/containerization-image-complexity.md)

## Linked from

- [Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-portability-infrastructure-deployment.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)