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Life & fun · February 20, 2025

We have just released our first Debloating tool for Containers

We have been working on tools for safe debloating of software for a few years now at the university. BLAFS is one of our first tools to release for file debloating, a bloat-aware filesystem for container debloating. It detects the files used by the container, and the debloats the container removing the unused files. The debloated containers are fully functional and can run the same workload as the original containers, but with a much smaller size and faster deployment. Check the paper for more details: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04641

We have just released our first Debloating tool for Containers launched on February 20, 2025 with 5 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

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A tool for Container Debloating that removes bloat and improves performance and security - reSecureIt/BLAFS

BLAFS is a bloat-aware filesystem for container debloating. The design principles of BLAFS are effective, efficient, and easy to use. It detects the files used by the container, and then debloats the container by removing the unused files. The debloated containers are still functional and can run the same workload as the original containers, but with a much smaller size and faster deployment. Check the paper for more details: The Cure is in the Cause: A Filesystem for Container Debloating . docker run -d --name baffs --privileged=true -v /tmp/docker:/var/lib/docker justinzhf/baffs:latest Note that we mount the host's /tmp/docker to the container's /var/lib/docker . In this way, all the…from github.com

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