minideb VS Lean and Mean Docker containers

Compare minideb vs Lean and Mean Docker containers and see what are their differences.

minideb

A small image based on Debian designed for use in containers (by bitnami)

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) (by slimtoolkit)
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minideb Lean and Mean Docker containers
6 38
1,951 18,071
1.0% 1.5%
6.9 9.1
14 days ago 4 days ago
Shell Go
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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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

Lean and Mean Docker containers

Posts with mentions or reviews of Lean and Mean Docker containers. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-22.

What are some alternatives?

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

Go random string generator - Flexible and customizable random string generator

pipx - Install and Run Python Applications in Isolated Environments

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

gophish - Open-Source Phishing Toolkit

simple-scrypt - A convenience library for generating, comparing and inspecting password hashes using the scrypt KDF in Go πŸ”‘

memguard - Secure software enclave for storage of sensitive information in memory.

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

passlib - :key: Idiotproof golang password validation library inspired by Python's passlib

MeTube - Self-hosted YouTube downloader (web UI for youtube-dl / yt-dlp)

lego - Let's Encrypt/ACME client and library written in Go

dongle - A simple, semantic and developer-friendly golang package for encoding&decoding and encryption&decryption

distroless - πŸ₯‘ Language focused docker images, minus the operating system.