Provided are techniques for using binaries of container images as operating system commands. Metadata describing one or more binaries for a container image is received, where each of the one or more binaries has an associated operating system command. The one or more binaries are integrated with the container image by placing the one or more binaries into the container image. Each operating system command is injected into an operating system by adding each operating system command to a command file accessed by the operating system. In response to receiving an operating system command associated with a binary of the one or more binaries, the container image is pulled using the metadata, the container image is executed with the one or more binaries, and a result is returned.