Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Xeol – An End Of Life (EOL) package scanner for container images

Hey everyone! I open-sourced a project that finds unsupported/End of Life software in container images, systems, and SBOMs. It's based on https://github.com/anchore/grype and uses https://endoflife.date/ as a data source for EOL packages.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Xeol – An End Of Life (EOL) package scanner for container images launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Xeol▲4

   Find End of Life software in your container images and SBOMS

   2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything▲248

   Check end-of-life, support schedule, and release timelines for more than 380+ products at one place.

   2019 · endoflife.date · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Exopods▲411

   Bring your Docker image or GitHub repo, Go live in seconds.

   2024 · exopods.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   End-to-end LTE example with Docker and emulated radio▲210

   Minimal end-to-end LTE. Dockerized and emulated radio over shared memory. - pgorczak/srslte-docker-emulated

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   DevTools-X – a cross platform alternative of devutils and devtoys▲136

   Collection of offline first developer utilities available as non-electron desktop application. all in one place, cross-platform, 10MB app! - fosslife/devtools-x

   2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Xcapture-BPF – like Linux top, but with Xray vision▲447

   Always on Profiling for Production Systems

   2024 · 0x.tools · its alternatives →

7. 7
   EOL Dataset▲64

   Find every EOL dependency in your stack. Free. In 5 minutes.

   Apr 2026 · herodevs.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   EOL Tracking▲3

   Hardware EOL tracking that refuses to guess a date

   Aug 2026 · eoltracking.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   ttl.sh – Anonymous, ephemeral (& free) Docker image registry▲9

   Free, anonymous, and ephemeral OCI registry. No sign-up required. Push your images and they expire automatically.

   2019 · ttl.sh · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Container Diet▲105

    Slim down your Docker images with AI-powered sass. 🐳💅

    Nov 2025 · k1lgor.github.io · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images▲120

    I would like to share Minimal - Its a open source collection of hardened container images build using Apko, Melange and Wolfi packages. The images are build daily, checked for updates and resolved as soon as fix is available in upstream source and Wolfi package. It utilizes the power of available open source solutions and contains commercially available images for free. Minimal demonstrates that it is possible to build and maintain hardened container images by ourselves. Minimal will add more images support, and goal is to be community driven to add images as required and fully customizable.

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Building better base images▲38

    This project addresses the inefficiencies of traditional Dockerfile-based container builds where each customization layer creates storage bloat through duplicate dependencies from repeated apt-get install commands, network inefficiency from redundant package downloads across different images, and slow iteration cycles requiring full rebuilds of all previous steps. Our solution enables building minimal base images from scratch using debootstrap that precisely include only required components in the initial build, while allowing creation of specialized variants (Java, Kafka, etc.) from these…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Sysdig, a tool for Linux system exploration▲171

    Linux system exploration and troubleshooting tool with first class support for containers - draios/sysdig

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Desole▲89

    Open source error-tracking, tightly integrated with AWS.

    2018 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    errsole▲133

    First open-source Node.js logger with a built-in log viewer

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Aura Life▲121

    A platform that lets you prepare for death & celebrate life

    2021 · aura.life · its alternatives →

17. 17
    aPulse▲114

    A one-file Node.js server status monitoring tool

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    B4the.date▲65

    Track expiries, consume or give away before the date

    2022 · its alternatives →

19. 19IB
    I built ContainerCVE – a web tool to scan public Docker images▲91

    I found it odd there wasn’t a simple web tool to scan Docker Hub images for vulnerabilities. So I built one. It’s powered by the popular open-source tool Trivy.

    2023 · containercve.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    ExoAPI▲94

    Affordable APIs - Geocoding, HTML rendering, barcodes & more

    2023 · exoapi.dev · its alternatives →

21. 21
    A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container▲83

    A Docker image is a piece of executable code that produces some output given some input. - a11ce/docker-lisp

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    WeExpire.org – Notes readable only after your death▲73

    Create secure emergency notes for free with WeExpire — a privacy-first, open-source alternative to online wills and digital legacy tools.

    2023 · weexpire.org · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Quay▲59

    Build, analyze & distributes your container images

    2021 · quay.io · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Another ELF Analysis Toolkit▲62

    Nyxelf simplifies static and dynamic analysis of ELF binaries, enabling you to extract valuable insights effortlessly. And can be used for vulnerability assessments, unpacking, syscall tracing, and memory analysis.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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