Is their ingress-nginx-controller image similar to that of Chainguard: a drop-in replacement with the CVEs fixed?
Minimus container images are now free
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#12Where are these built? Can I see the Dockerfiles? How are they licensed?
I get that they are free as in beer, but not libre/FLOSS?
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#13The free tiers always go away, after they're deep in our infra. I would prefer to price it from the start.
We would be happy to sell it to you today! :)
This is our new Community Edition, which are all the exact same images as the Enterprise Edition product customers around the world already use, just without all the other features like image creator, self hosting, integrations, SSO, etc. Click the discover Enterprise Edition button on lower left and you can see a quick comparison table or go to minimus.io to see all the details.
EE also includes contractually backed CVE remediation and support SLAs. If you’d like to try EE and get pricing details, we’d be happy to help! Just click the button on the lower left to get started.
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#14John here (CTO and Co-Founder)… we’d be happy to answer any questions anyone has!
Any plans to add IPv6 support? NAT GW are costly and docker hub has full support.
currently reg.mini.dev does not have AAAA records. Did not check the blob storage endpoints.
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#15Where are these built? Can I see the Dockerfiles? How are they licensed? I get that they are free as in beer, but not libre/FLOSS?
Currently, yes free as in beer. We build every component directly from source in a SLSA 3 environment we run (mostly in GCP). Making the Dockerfiles available is a fair question, not something we’ve done thus far because it’s not particularly useful if you don’t have all the infrastructure building the components.
Do you have particular scenarios you’d like the Dockerfiles for or is it just for transparency/ trust (which is a totally valid reason of course)?
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#16John here (CTO and Co-Founder)… we’d be happy to answer any questions anyone has!
Any plans to add IPv6 support? NAT GW are costly and docker hub has full support. currently reg.mini.dev does not have AAAA records. Did not check the blob storage endpoints.
Certainly something we can add, just not something any customers have wanted thus far.
reg.mini.dev is really a front end to Google Artifact Registry which already supports v6. I opened an issue for our devops team to enable it for us.
Thanks for the feedback!
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#17Asking the very obvious question (as it's not apparent from the website): Why would I use this over DHI (Docker Hardened Images) or Chainguard Images, both of which also have a set of free hardened images?
1. These are all >1200 of our images, including FIPS, and all versions… others gate many of their images 2. These are all built continuously from upstream source on a distroless base… this makes a significant difference in attack surface and CVE count re DHI images and you can easily check our word with a few scans 3. These are truly free… no auth wall, no signup, no trial, no limit on numbers of images or pulls or a…
The question was "why over DHI?"
1 and 2 are not a reason
3. no X, no Y, also not a reason
4. `rg agents`. Right
Re: Minimus container images are now free
#18Where are these built? Can I see the Dockerfiles? How are they licensed? I get that they are free as in beer, but not libre/FLOSS?
Currently, yes free as in beer. We build every component directly from source in a SLSA 3 environment we run (mostly in GCP). Making the Dockerfiles available is a fair question, not something we’ve done thus far because it’s not particularly useful if you don’t have all the infrastructure building the components. Do you have particular scenarios you’d like the Dockerfiles for or is it just for transparency/ trust (w…
> Do you have particular scenarios you’d like the Dockerfiles for or is it just for transparency/ trust (which is a totally valid reason of course)?
The latter. You or an attacker could tamper with the images - however even with the Dockerfiles I can't be sure that the provided images are built from the Dockerfiles, so in the end I'd have to trust you anyway. Also I'd be curious how you build the images.
Thanks for your answer!
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. These are all >1200 of our images, including FIPS, and all versions… others gate many of their images 2. These are all built continuously from upstream source on a distroless base… this makes a significant difference in attack surface and CVE count re DHI images and you can easily check our word with a few scans 3. These are truly free… no auth wall, no signup, no trial, no limit on numbers of images or pulls or a…
The question was "why over DHI?" 1 and 2 are not a reason 3. no X, no Y, also not a reason 4. `rg agents`. Right
Not sure what you mean… we have more images than DHI, we have FIPS images available freely, and all our images are built from source on a distroless base. These are just objective facts.
The build from source on distroless approach provides a meaningful advantage re attack surface and CVEs versus DHI images. You don’t have to take our word for it, just pull some images and scan with Trivy or Grype or whatever you prefer.
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#20Since we started paying for Chainguard I’ve become super sold on the benefits of minimal and continually patched images. It’s just a shame that the open source community only gets to benefit from the limited free library DHI and Chainguard offer. I understand it costs money though and that needs to come from somewhere.