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Minimus is a repository of lightweight images designed to drastically reduce your attack surface. Minimus reduces vulnerabilities by trimming out software bloat and publishing patched versions as soon as upstream releases a fix. Minimus builds its images from scratch, directly from upstream project sources, with only the minimal software needed to run the app. As a result, many Minimus images have 0 vulnerabilities at their time of release and accumulate fewer vulnerabilities at a slower rate compared to comparable standard images, all helping to reduce your attack surface over time. Safeguarding against vulnerabilities in cloud environments is faster, easier, and better with Minimus. Give Minimus images a quick try to see the immediate vulnerability reduction in your own environment. Get Started

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About Minimus

Minimus images help keep you safer because they are:
  • Secure - Experience a reduction of up to 100% in vulnerabilities. Minimus images have few to no vulnerabilities at their time of release and accumulate vulnerabilities at a slower rate.
  • Lightweight - Software bloat is meticulously removed to keep the image minimal, more secure, and more performant with quicker load times.
  • Authenticated & Verifiable - All software artifacts are signed to ensure integrity & authenticity. Software artifacts can be verified through build and SBOM attestations.
  • Fresh - Daily builds ensure the freshest upgrades are available as soon as possible.
  • Cloud-focused - Designed to run natively on any cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes.
  • Distroless - Containers run on the host kernel.
  • OCI compliant - Minimus images adhere to the OCI specification for promoting vendor-neutral and portable images and containers.

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Minimus Community Edition

Community Edition includes:

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Managing security with Minimus images

Relying on OSS infrastructure comes with the responsibility of maintaining software provided “as is”, with no liability. Switching to Minimus images provides an improved experience with advanced source, build, and dependency integrity and a dependable advisory and patching service that will save your organization thousands of hours detecting, triaging, and patching vulnerabilities. The Minimus threat intel dashboard will help you stay informed of the most critical updates and threats, and track the security advantage of your Minimus images over their comparable OSS options.
Last modified on June 22, 2026