> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.minimus.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Community Edition

## Introducing Minimus Community Edition

Minimus Community Edition offers developers free, unauthenticated access to the entire Minimus catalog of hardened, continuously updated container images across all version tags.

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## Minimus Community Edition in Detail

### Deploy

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    <Card title="Fresh daily image builds" icon="dolly-box" href="/foundations/daily-updates">
      Allowing teams to achieve a near-zero-vulnerability baseline
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    <Card title="Minimus Helm charts" icon="cabinet-filing" href="/foundations/helm-charts">
      Track the upstream and keep the same version tags for drop-in compatibility
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### Comply & Verify

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    <Card title="Signatures for verification" icon="badge-check" href="/integrity/verify">
      Verify every image, SBOM, and Helm chart from Minimus
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    <Card title="Image compliance reports" icon="file-certificate" href="/compliance/image-compliance">
      NIST-800-190, CIS Docker Benchmark,  and more
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### FedRAMP

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    <Card title="FIPS verified images" icon="user-shield" href="/compliance/fips">
      FedRAMP compliance with CMVP certificates - no hardware requirements
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    <Card title="CIS app benchmarks" icon="list-check" href="/foundations/image-types">
      Minimus Hardened images provide secure by default configurations
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### Update & Secure

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    <Card title="Comprehensive image changelog" icon="code-compare" href="/foundations/image-card#changelog">
      Know what's changed with every digest in every version
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    <Card title="Security advisories per package" icon="file-certificate" href="/remediate/advisories">
      EPSS, CISA KEV, and severity analysis for accuracy, reducing false-positives
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## Low friction migration

A common complaint about "distroless" images is that they remove debug tools like shells and package managers. The good news is every Minimus image in every version offers a `dev` build that keeps standard developer tools intact.

Dev images provide massive security benefits without requiring teams to change their workflows or deal with migration headaches so you can safely choose Minimus without worrying about developer pushback. [Learn more](/introduction/image-variants)


## Related topics

- [What's New](/release-notes.md)
- [Why Minimus](/introduction/about-minimus.md)
- [Image Tags](/introduction/offering.md)