Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images
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.
Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images launched on January 31, 2026 with 120 votes, #265 of 14,585 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
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Minimal is an open-source collection of hardened container images built using Apko, Melange, and Wolfi packages. Designed for developers and DevOps teams, the images are built daily with automatic security updates resolved as soon as fixes become available upstream. The project demonstrates a community-driven approach to maintaining production-ready container images that replicate commercially available options at no cost, with plans to expand image support and customization options based on community needs.
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Minimal CVE Hardened container image collection. Contribute to rtvkiz/minimal development by creating an account on GitHub.
112 small, hardened container images. Free, MIT-licensed, signed, and rebuilt every six hours. docker pull ghcr.io/rtvkiz/minimal-python:latest No account needed. Every image has a :latest-dev companion with a shell and toolchain for debugging and multi-stage builds. docker run --rm -p 8080:80 ghcr.io/rtvkiz/minimal-nginx:latest docker run --rm -p 6379:6379 ghcr.io/rtvkiz/minimal-redis-slim:latest Find an image → — all 112, with live sizes and CVE counts. gh attestation verify oci://ghcr.io/rtvkiz/minimal-python:latest --owner rtvkiz Every published image carries a keyless Cosign signature, an SPDX SBOM, and SLSA v1.0 build provenance tied to the workflow and commit that produced it. No…from github.com
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