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Built from source, scanned for vulnerabilities around the clock, signed with SBOMs, and tested for build integrity and Kubernetes readiness.

Getting Started

The first step to more secure applications begins with more secure images.

Pull images

Pull your favorite images to get started

Going distroless

Migrate from Alpine, Debian, or Ubuntu to distroless images

Verify images

Verify image and chart signatures with Cosign

Pull policy

Always pull fresh images to stay protected

Make it your own

Build private images tailored to your stack. Bake in certificates, environment variables, and configs using Creator and minicli. Extend with MinimOS packages.

minicli

Manage private images as code

Image Creator

Create your golden images

Package access

Directly install Minimus packages

AI skills

Skill your agents to work with Minimus

Staying Secure

Always patched, every single day.

Daily builds

Fresh images released daily

Vulnerability reports

Ongoing vulnerability scans and reports

Compliance checklist

Validate CIS and NIST compliance

Image changelog

Keep up with all updates

About Minimus

Learn about the Minimus approach and build pipeline.

Minimus architecture

Understand the Minimus pipeline

Lines & versions

Visualize major and minor releases

Prod & Dev images

Utilize prod and dev version pairs

Highlights

Discover more Minimus features

Advanced Techniques

More secure apps require more secure techniques.

Take Python for a test

Build secure Python apps with Minimus

AWS Lambda

Deploy a distroless Python app on AWS Lambda

Slim down Go apps

Test out a slimmer runtime base

Multi-stage builds

Minimize the attack surface with multi-stage builds
Last modified on June 4, 2026