distroless VS fpm

Compare distroless vs fpm and see what are their differences.

distroless

🥑 Language focused docker images, minus the operating system. (by GoogleContainerTools)

fpm

Effing package management! Build packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity. (by jordansissel)
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distroless fpm
126 38
19,806 11,220
1.6% 0.3%
9.1 6.8
4 days ago about 2 months ago
Starlark Ruby
Apache License 2.0 MIT-like
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distroless

Posts with mentions or reviews of distroless. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-02-03.
  • Revisit base container image for AWS services
    4 projects | dev.to | 3 Feb 2025
    Debian slim and UBI are easy to use in the direction of creating a very small image while taking into account the use of a package manager, but on the other hand, they are too large to satisfy the demand to create a minimum image for a specific language environment. If you want to satisfy such a demand, Distroless image may be the right choice for you.
  • Base Images: The Secret to Smaller Docker Images
    1 project | dev.to | 2 Feb 2025
    As Google, the creator of distroless images, puts it, "Distroless images contain only your application and its runtime dependencies." You can read more about them here.
  • Distroless: Language focused Docker images, minus the operating system
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Sep 2024
  • Docker, Linux, Security. Kinda.
    7 projects | dev.to | 19 May 2024
    That's how we get distroless. Distroless base images follow the same pattern as alpine base docker images, as in, less functionality while still keeping enough functionality to be able to do the job and minimize the attack surface. Minimizing a base image like this means that the base images are very specialized so we have base images for golang, python, java and the like.
  • Chainguard Images now available on Docker Hub
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Mar 2024
    lots of questions here regarding what this product is. I guess i can provide some information for the context, from a perspective of an outside contributor.

    Chainguard Images is a set of hardened container images.

    They were built by the original team that brought you Google's Distroless (https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless)

    However, there were few problems with Distroless:

    1. distroless were based on Debian - which in turn, limited to Debian's release cadence for fixing CVE.

    2. distroless is using bazelbuild, which is not exactly easy to contrib, customize, etc...

    3. distroless images are hard to extend.

    Chainguard built a new "undistro" OS for container workload, named Wolfi, using their OSS projects like melange (for packaging pkgs) and apko (for building images).

    The idea is (from my understanding) is that

    1. You don't have to rely on upstream to cut a release. Chainguard will be doing that, with lots of automation & guardrails in placed. This allow them to fix vulnerabilties extremely fast.

  • Language focused Docker images, minus the operating system
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Feb 2024
  • Using Alpine can make Python Docker builds 50× slower
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Dec 2023
    > If you have one image based on Ubuntu in your stack, you may as well base them all on Ubuntu, because you only need to download (and store!) the common base image once

    This is only true if your infrastructure is static. If your infrastructure is highly elastic, image size has an impact on your time to scale up.

    Of course, there are better choices than Alpine to optimize image size. Distroless (https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless) is a good example.

  • Smaller and Safer Clojure Containers: Minimizing the Software Bill of Materials
    1 project | /r/Clojure | 7 Dec 2023
  • Long Term Ownership of an Event-Driven System
    4 projects | dev.to | 2 Oct 2023
    The same as our code dependencies, container updates can include security patches and bug fixes and improvements. However, they can also include breaking changes and it is crucial you test them thoroughly before putting them into production. Wherever possible, I recommend using the distroless base image which will drastically reduce both your image size, your risk vector, and therefore your maintenance version going forward.
  • Minimizing Nuxt 3 Docker Images
    2 projects | dev.to | 5 Aug 2023
    # Use a large Node.js base image to build the application and name it "build" FROM node:18-alpine as build WORKDIR /app # Copy the package.json and package-lock.json files into the working directory before copying the rest of the files # This will cache the dependencies and speed up subsequent builds if the dependencies don't change COPY package*.json /app # You might want to use yarn or pnpm instead RUN npm install COPY . /app RUN npm run build # Instead of using a node:18-alpine image, we are using a distroless image. These are provided by google: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless FROM gcr.io/distroless/nodejs:18 as prod WORKDIR /app # Copy the built application from the "build" image into the "prod" image COPY --from=build /app/.output /app/.output # Since this image only contains node.js, we do not need to specify the node command and simply pass the path to the index.mjs file! CMD ["/app/.output/server/index.mjs"]

fpm

Posts with mentions or reviews of fpm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing distroless and fpm you can also consider the following projects:

iron-alpine - Hardened alpine linux baseimage for Docker.

Linuxbrew

jib - 🏗 Build container images for your Java applications.

Homebrew-cask - 🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries

docker-alpine - Official Alpine Linux Docker image. Win at minimalism!

CocoaPods - The Cocoa Dependency Manager.

dockerfiles - Various Dockerfiles I use on the desktop and on servers.

Homebrew

dive - A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image

tito - A tool for managing rpm based git projects.

spring-boot-jib - This project is about Containerizing a Spring Boot Application With Jib

omnibus-ruby - Easily create full-stack installers for your project across a variety of platforms.

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