Use of netcat in API Developer portal containers

Products

• CA API Developer Portal

Issue/Introduction

The use of  Netcat in our environment  goes against client security policy. 

API developer portal is using netcat in several container images ,will the Developer Portal still function properly without Netcat ?

Resolution

API developer Portal does currently not work without netcat , we are using netcat in several scripts to check if the service is reachable and  active .

For the future we are looking to remove this dependency as part of the migration to distroless Images.