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Similar projects and alternatives to minideb
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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)
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raspberrypi-sys-mods
A collection of Raspberry Pi-sourced system configuration files and associated scripts
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noyaml
A silly emotional rant about the state of devops tooling/the infrastructure sector in 2018. #noyaml.com
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Tendis
Tendis is a high-performance distributed storage system fully compatible with the Redis protocol.
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docker-slim
Discontinued 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) [Moved to: https://github.com/slimtoolkit/slim]
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docker-debian-artifacts
Official builds of debuerreotype-generated Debian tarballs for use in Docker
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raspberrypi-sys-mods
Discontinued A collection of Raspberry Pi-sourced system configuration files and associated scripts [Moved to: https://github.com/BitBistro-code/raspberrypi-sys-mods] (by mikewwwperry)
NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better minideb alternative or higher similarity.
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We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-07-18.
- Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts
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Setting up a packaging environment for Alpine Linux (introducing alpkg)
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.
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I deleted 78% of my Redis container and it still works
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/
- Minideb: A small image based on Debian designed for use in containers
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Minimal base images roundup
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.
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Microsoft repo installed on all Raspberry Pi’s
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
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bitnami/minideb is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of minideb is Shell.
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