jib VS distroless

Compare jib vs distroless and see what are their differences.

jib

🏗 Build container images for your Java applications. (by GoogleContainerTools)

distroless

🥑 Language focused docker images, minus the operating system. (by GoogleContainerTools)
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jib distroless
46 122
13,321 17,487
0.9% 2.0%
8.0 9.3
7 days ago 6 days ago
Java Starlark
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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jib

Posts with mentions or reviews of jib. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-15.
  • Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Mar 2024
    Having the author do this for a service written in Go is a mistake. Your first address for containerizing Go services should be ko: https://ko.build/ , and similar solutions like Jib in the Java ecosystem: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib . No need to require everyone to install something heavy like Nix, no need for privileged containers in CI to connect to a Docker daemon so that actual commands can be executed to determine filesystem contents, just the absolute bare minimum of a manifest defining a base layer + the compiled artifacts copied into the tarball at the correct positions. More languages should support this kind of model - when you see that pnpm's recipe (https://pnpm.io/docker), ultimately, is to pick a pre-existing node base image, then copy artifacts in and set some manifest settings, there's really no technical reason why something like "pnpm build-container-image", without a dependency on a Docker daemon, hasn't been implemented yet.

    Using nix, or Dockerfile, or similar systems are, today, fundamentally additional complications to support building containerized systems that are not pure Go or pure Java etc. So we should stop recommending them as the default.

    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Mar 2024
  • Deploy Secure Spring Boot Microservices on Amazon EKS Using Terraform and Kubernetes
    13 projects | dev.to | 23 Nov 2023
    You need to build Docker images for each app. This is specific to the JHipster application used in this tutorial which uses Jib to build the images. Make sure you are logged into Docker using docker login. Navigate to each app folder (store, invoice, product) and run the following command:
  • Tool to build Docker images
    5 projects | /r/devops | 26 May 2023
    JIB
  • Thin (ish) Clojure jars for better docker containers
    3 projects | /r/Clojure | 23 May 2023
    It is pretty easy to do with https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib.
  • Fearless Distroless
    3 projects | dev.to | 20 Apr 2023
    I first learned about Distroless because it was the default option in Google's Jib. Jib is a Maven plugin to create Docker containers without dependency on Docker. Note that the default has changed now.
  • Spring Boot pod takes 60 seconds to become ready; trouble handling spiky workloads
    2 projects | /r/devops | 6 Apr 2023
    Optimize your Dockerfile by using a small base Java Image, use either Spring Boot's layers tools or Google Jib to build your docker file, and increase CPU/Memory requests and limits if you can.
  • CI/CD with Spring Boot and Jenkins Pipelines
    6 projects | dev.to | 28 Mar 2023
    In this section, we will setup the automated generation and deployment of a Docker container image. You will need a Docker Hub account and the Jib Gradle Plugin.
  • How to Deploy JHipster Microservices on Amazon EKS Using Terraform and Kubernetes
    10 projects | dev.to | 5 Jul 2022
    You need to build Docker images for each app. This is specific to the JHipster application used in this tutorial which uses Jib to build the images. Make sure you are logged into Docker using docker login. Navigate to each app folder (store, invoice, product) and run the following command:
  • Cloud Native Java Microservices with JHipster and Istio
    18 projects | dev.to | 28 Jun 2022
    We are ready to deploy now. First, we need to build and push the images to the registry. We can use the handy Jib commands provided by JHipster. Navigate to each of the microservice folders and run the commands below.

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 2024-03-14.
  • 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.

  • 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"]
  • Build Your Own Docker with Linux Namespaces, Cgroups, and Chroot
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jun 2023
    Lots of examples without the entire OS as other comments mention, an example would be Googles distroless[0]

    [0]: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless

  • Reddit temporarily ban subreddit and user advertising rival self-hosted platform (Lemmy)
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 7 Jun 2023
    Docker doesn't do this all the time. Distroless Docker containers are relatively common. https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless
  • Why elixir over Golang
    10 projects | /r/elixir | 29 May 2023
    Deployment: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless
  • Reviews
    3 projects | /r/golang | 17 May 2023
    Or use distroless image as it includes one, among others. https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless/blob/main/base/README.md
  • MRSK: Deploy Web Apps Anywhere
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Apr 2023
    I find Docker running a full Linux userspace a little bloated. Thankfully there are distroless base images(https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless). Haven't done service dev in a while, so I don't really have experience with this, but it looks promising.
  • Is it ok not to be able to run application locally?
    6 projects | /r/golang | 27 Apr 2023
    One of the things we did that helped was to use Go for fast builds, and then we build our binary into Google’s distroless base container image. This makes really tiny images (like 20-30MB images) so uploading the container images to our container repository and deploying to our dev K8S cluster is super fast! This helps make deploys fast.
  • Fearless Distroless
    3 projects | dev.to | 20 Apr 2023
    -- "Distroless" Container Images

What are some alternatives?

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

kaniko - Build Container Images In Kubernetes

jkube - Build and Deploy java applications on Kubernetes

buildkit - concurrent, cache-efficient, and Dockerfile-agnostic builder toolkit

Bazel - a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system

iron-alpine - Hardened alpine linux baseimage for Docker.

docker-maven-plugin - INACTIVE: A maven plugin for Docker

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

shadow - Gradle plugin to create fat/uber JARs, apply file transforms, and relocate packages for applications and libraries. Gradle version of Maven's Shade plugin.

podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

tilt-extensions - Extensions for Tilt

pack - CLI for building apps using Cloud Native Buildpacks

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