minideb VS containers

Compare minideb vs containers and see what are their differences.

minideb

A small image based on Debian designed for use in containers (by bitnami)
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minideb containers
6 13
1,951 2,435
1.0% 8.3%
6.9 10.0
13 days ago 4 days ago
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minideb

Posts with mentions or reviews of minideb. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-27.
  • Setting up a packaging environment for Alpine Linux (introducing alpkg)
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Mar 2023
    postgres:15-bullseye 2bb008a38e7c 379MB

    [1] https://github.com/bitnami/minideb

    However, it is sometimes a good idea to benchmark the speed of different images, as sometimes a significant speed loss is possible.

  • I deleted 78% of my Redis container and it still works
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jul 2022
    as is stated initially, that goes back to how bitnami is building its Docker images, basing on a set of debian packages (minideb) - there's also a shell library/framework embedded that does useful things, but that makes you read more code when you go check how the sausage is made. That minideb is the basis for the higher CVE count compared to scratch or alpine images.

    > it’s a well-kept secret that no one wants to talk about

    the maintainer side most casual docker image users aren't aware of I'd rephrase, but bitnami at least documents the issue

    https://github.com/bitnami/minideb#security

    https://docs.bitnami.com/kubernetes/open-cve-policy/

  • Minimal base images roundup
    3 projects | /r/kubernetes | 21 Feb 2021
    Ah, yeah it's a little more confusing because it's using the debootstrap tool (https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap) to build the container image filesystem. You can see all the gory logic here: https://github.com/bitnami/minideb/blob/master/buildone and https://github.com/bitnami/minideb/blob/master/mkimage It's a bunch of shell scripting that's not really meant to be interpreted by anyone that isn't a debian expert though, so don't feel bad if it looks really confusing. I think the overall thing is that minideb installs the absolute bare minimum system with debootstrap and even strips out a few essential packages like trusted SSL CAs, etc. If you need anything (including those essential packages) you're meant to just install_packages install them--it's all using the same apt sources and packages as debian.
    3 projects | /r/kubernetes | 21 Feb 2021
    I really like minideb from bitnami: https://github.com/bitnami/minideb
  • Microsoft repo installed on all Raspberry Pi’s
    14 projects | /r/linux | 3 Feb 2021
    Do you know why this is? Because it's part of the base file system. Here is a line from the build script for minideb (basically the smallest image needed to run a container): https://github.com/bitnami/minideb/blob/e4f37e8a5d271d93b79c3f4caa49c4ceb95d8eec/mkimage#L52

containers

Posts with mentions or reviews of containers. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-30.
  • Can't get Rocket Chat to work
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 30 Mar 2023
    mongodb 15:53:35.21 INFO ==> ** Starting MongoDB ** mongodb 15:54:35.83 mongodb 15:54:35.83 Welcome to the Bitnami mongodb container mongodb 15:54:35.83 Subscribe to project updates by watching https://github.com/bitnami/containers mongodb 15:54:35.83 Submit issues and feature requests at https://github.com/bitnami/containers/issues mongodb 15:54:35.83 mongodb 15:54:35.83 INFO ==> ** Starting MongoDB setup ** mongodb 15:54:35.85 INFO ==> Validating settings in MONGODB_* env vars... mongodb 15:54:36.08 WARN ==> You set the environment variable ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes. For safety reasons, do not use this flag in a production environment. mongodb 15:54:36.09 INFO ==> Initializing MongoDB... mongodb 15:54:36.13 INFO ==> Deploying MongoDB with persisted data... mongodb 15:54:36.15 INFO ==> ** MongoDB setup finished! ** mongodb 15:54:36.16 INFO ==> ** Starting MongoDB **
  • Setting up a packaging environment for Alpine Linux (introducing alpkg)
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Mar 2023
  • containers VS bitnami-compat - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 16 Feb 2023
  • Help finding docker base images
    3 projects | /r/PHP | 2 Feb 2023
    this is nice but it's not the one https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami but need to look at them more, thanks
  • Guide: Get OpenLDAP to work on arm64 - modifying bitnami/openldap image.
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 27 Sep 2022
    Hello there, In my search for a good self-hosted wiki/documentation app, I found Outline, it's so beautiful, but I found that I needed to run an LDAP server for users (Outline supports file-based backend as well). I struggled to find a good LDAP docker image for arm64, so I decided to modify Bitnami's image to include an arm64 version of OpenLDAP.. which I didn't find so I had to compile it from source. I hope you find it helpful
  • I deleted 78% of my Redis container and it still works
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jul 2022
    redis 12:06:41.46 Submit issues and feature requests at https://github.com/bitnami/containers/issues

What are some alternatives?

When comparing minideb and containers you can also consider the following projects:

Lean and Mean Docker containers - Slim(toolkit): Don't change anything in your container image and minify it by up to 30x (and for compiled languages even more) making it secure too! (free and open source)

stego-toolkit - Collection of steganography tools - helps with CTF challenges

graylog-docker - Official Graylog Docker image

bitnami-docker-drupal - Bitnami Docker Image for Drupal

pi-gen - Tool used to create the official Raspberry Pi OS images

SSDB - SSDB - A fast NoSQL database, an alternative to Redis

docker-dropbox - :whale: Dropbox in a Docker container

RaspberryPi-AntiTrust

basedevcontainer - Base development Docker image used by other development Docker images

KeyDB - A Multithreaded Fork of Redis

raspberrypi-sys-mods - A collection of Raspberry Pi-sourced system configuration files and associated scripts

docker-gitlab - Dockerized GitLab