A system and method for tailoring container images stored in a container image registry to a specific microarchitecture that a host operating system is running on in a virtualized environment. A container image fetch request is sent to the container image registry. Microarchitecture identification instructions are received from the image registry in response to the container image fetch request. Results from the microarchitecture identification instructions are transmitted to the container image registry to identify the specific microarchitecture that the host operating system is running on in the virtualized environment, and a container within the virtualized environment is started using an optimal container image received from the container image registry, the optimal container image being tailored to the specific microarchitecture to leverage the functionalities and capabilities of the specific microarchitecture of the computing system.