diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,11 +2,13 @@
 
 ## Upcoming Release
 ### Features Added
+- Add Docker build for hardened security environments
 - Update Netty to 4.2.9.Final
 - New `--logging-format` CLI option to select structured logging formats (PLAIN, ECS, GCP, LOGSTASH, GELF) without requiring custom Log4j2 configuration files. Issue [#1144][issue_1144] via PR [#1146][PR_1146].
 
 ### Bugs Fixed
 
+[issue_1151]: https://github.com/Consensys/web3signer/issues/1151
 [issue_1144]: https://github.com/Consensys/web3signer/issues/1144
 [PR_1146]: https://github.com/Consensys/web3signer/pull/1146
 
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile.distroless b/docker/Dockerfile.distroless
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8b2b5ccd9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile.distroless
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+FROM ubuntu:latest AS builder
+
+# Build-time metadata as defined at http://label-schema.org
+ARG BUILD_DATE
+ARG VCS_REF
+ARG VERSION
+LABEL org.label-schema.build-date=$BUILD_DATE \
+      org.label-schema.name="Web3Signer" \
+      org.label-schema.description="Ethereum 2.0 Signing Service" \
+      org.label-schema.url="https://docs.web3signer.consensys.net" \
+      org.label-schema.vcs-ref=$VCS_REF \
+      org.label-schema.vcs-url="https://github.com/ConsenSys/web3signer.git" \
+      org.label-schema.vendor="Consensys" \
+      org.label-schema.version=$VERSION \
+      org.label-schema.schema-version="1.0"
+
+# Web3Signer tar.gz file (from gradlew distTar)
+ARG TAR_FILE
+# Validate that the TAR_FILE argument is provided
+RUN if [ -z "$TAR_FILE" ]; then echo "TAR_FILE build argument is required" && exit 1; fi
+COPY "${TAR_FILE}" /tmp/web3signer.tar.gz
+
+# Extract the tar.gz file and rename the directory
+RUN mkdir -p /opt/web3signer && \
+    tar -xzf /tmp/web3signer.tar.gz -C /opt/web3signer --strip-components=1 && \
+    rm /tmp/web3signer.tar.gz
+
+# This container is meant to be runnable on read-only
+# filesystems. Java extracts at runtime dynamic libraries from JAR
+# files in /tmp. For Web3signer this is limited to the blst library,
+# we extract it here in advance and remove it from the JAR to prevent
+# writes at runtime.
+RUN apt-get -y update && apt-get -y install unzip zip && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+RUN mkdir -p /tmp/native-libs /tmp/jar-repack && \
+    cd /tmp/jar-repack && \
+    unzip /opt/web3signer/lib/jblst-*.jar && \
+    cp supranational/blst/Linux/amd64/libblst.so /tmp/native-libs/ && \
+    rm -rf supranational/blst/Linux supranational/blst/Mac supranational/blst/Windows && \
+    zip -r /tmp/jblst-modified.jar . && \
+    mv /tmp/jblst-modified.jar /opt/web3signer/lib/$(basename /opt/web3signer/lib/jblst-*.jar) && \
+    rm -rf /tmp/jar-repack /tmp/supranational /tmp/META-INF
+
+# Multiple packages have as a resource the log4j2.xml file in them, as
+# we don't rely on the Gradle launch script (as it depends on a shell)
+# we need to manually extract the one that matters to us to make sure
+# it is used in priority.
+RUN mkdir -p /opt/web3signer/config && \
+    unzip -j /opt/web3signer/lib/web3signer-app-*.jar log4j2.xml -d /opt/web3signer/config/
+
+FROM gcr.io/distroless/java21-debian12:nonroot
+
+WORKDIR /opt/web3signer
+
+COPY --from=builder /opt/web3signer .
+COPY --from=builder /tmp/native-libs native-libs
+
+ENV WEB3SIGNER_HTTP_LISTEN_HOST="0.0.0.0"
+ENV WEB3SIGNER_METRICS_HOST="0.0.0.0"
+
+# List Exposed Ports
+# Metrics, Rest API
+EXPOSE 9001 9000 9000/udp
+
+ARG VERSION
+
+# This is somewhat complex because we can't use the entrypoint script
+# generated by gradle (there's no shell or unix tools at hand).
+#
+# - The option -XX:-UsePerfData disables Java from storing perf data
+#   in /tmp, this is required if the intent is to rely on read-only
+#   filesystems.
+#
+# - We override log4j2.xml to ensure it is the web3signer one that is
+#   used.
+#
+# - The rest of the settings are similar to what gradle's entrypoint
+#   provides.
+
+ENTRYPOINT [ \
+    "java", \
+    "-XX:-UsePerfData", \
+    "-cp", \
+    "/opt/web3signer/lib/*", \
+    "-Dlog4j2.configurationFile=/opt/web3signer/config/log4j2.xml", \
+    "-Djava.library.path=/opt/web3signer/native-libs", \
+    "-Djna.library.path=/opt/web3signer/native-libs", \
+    "-Djna.noclasspath=true", \
+    "-Dvertx.disableFileCPResolving=true", \
+    "-Dlog4j.skipJansi=true", \
+    "-Dlog4j.shutdownHookEnabled=false", \
+    "-Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true", \
+    "--enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED",\
+    "--add-opens", \
+    "java.base/jdk.internal.misc=ALL-UNNAMED", \
+    "--add-opens", \
+    "java.base/java.nio=ALL-UNNAMED", \
+    "-Dio.netty.tryReflectionSetAccessible=true", \
+    "--add-exports", \
+    "jdk.crypto.cryptoki/sun.security.pkcs11.wrapper=ALL-UNNAMED", \
+    "tech.pegasys.web3signer.Web3SignerApp" \
+    ]