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Minimus container images are now free

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Re: Minimus container images are now free

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Post by ftchd »

morellonet wrote: post #3

John here (CTO and Co-Founder)… we’d be happy to answer any questions anyone has!

Just a little bit of feedback: some items on the main page are duplicated, which could be confusing. For example, "nginx-advanced" appears as updated both 3 days ago and 2 hours ago.

Re: Minimus container images are now free

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Post by phishin »

hobofan wrote: post #4

Asking 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?

Agreed. Also on front page the nginx container is 6 days old, so no daily builds

Re: Minimus container images are now free

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Post by morellonet »

hobofan wrote: post #4

Asking 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 anything like that

4. We have really invested in making these agent ready… we have a CLI (minicli) designed for both humans and agents to easily discover, understand, migrate to, and build on them… for example, check out the AI migration prompts we provide for each image, we’ve refined these across many customer deployments such that you can copy paste into your agent of choice, point it at a Dockerfile and have it do all / nearly all the work to move to these images

Re: Minimus container images are now free

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Post by morellonet »

phishin wrote: post #6
hobofan wrote: post #4

Asking 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?

Agreed. Also on front page the nginx container is 6 days old, so no daily builds

We build anytime any component within an image has a new upstream version. If there’s no new upstream versions, no reason to build.

Check out the changelog tab in each image listing and you can see exactly when and why we build each time

Re: Minimus container images are now free

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Post by morellonet »

ftchd wrote: post #5
morellonet wrote: post #3

John here (CTO and Co-Founder)… we’d be happy to answer any questions anyone has!

Just a little bit of feedback: some items on the main page are duplicated, which could be confusing. For example, "nginx-advanced" appears as updated both 3 days ago and 2 hours ago.

One of those is the image, one is a Helm chart using that image. The chart has an label and icon for chart but obviously we need to make this clearer :)

Thanks for the feedback!

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