niiiixd/debian-mini repository overview

⁠What is Debian Mini

A minimalist Debian-based image built specifically to be used as a base image for containers.

⁠Use Debian Mini

You can use the image directly.

$ docker run --rm -it niiiixd/debian-mini:latest

There are tags⁠ for the different Debian releases.

$ docker run --rm -it niiiixd/debian-mini:bookworm

The images are built daily and have the security release enabled, so will contain any security updates released more than 24 hours ago.

You can also use the images as a base for your own Dockerfile:

FROM niiiixd/debian-mini:bookworm

⁠Why use Debian Mini

• This image aims to strike a good balance between having small images, and having many quality packages available for easy integration.
• The image is based on glibc for wide compatibility, and has apt for access to a large number of packages. In order to reduce size of the image, some things that aren't required in containers are removed:
  • Packages that aren't often used in containers (hardware related, init systems etc.)
  • Some files that aren't usually required (docs, man pages, locales, caches)

⁠Compatibility

The image points to the Debian archive, so you are free to install packages from there that you need. However because some Essential packages have been removed they may not always install or work correctly.

⁠Security

Debian Mini is based on Debian and relies on their security updates. The images are built daily and have the security release enabled, so will contain any security updates released more than 24 hours ago.

⁠Contributing

⁠License

Copyright © 2022 Sadegh Khademi

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0⁠

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

⁠Author Information

• Sadegh Khademi - SRE/Cloud Engineer - Sadegh Khademi website⁠ - Twitter @niiiixd⁠ - Email Address Email⁠