Minimus

💡 Skip the complexity of building secure images yourself. Minimus delivers minimal, trusted containers aligned with NIST 800-190.

🎙️ Listen to the full episode of The Security Strategist podcast: buff.ly/h4yMImT

🎃👻 Happy Halloween! Don't be scared of the competition you'll face at our DART challenge at KubeCon. You've still got time to train to win the Mini Cooper!

Follow our daily minimal training regimen below:

🤸 5 dart pushups
💪 10 dart situps
🎯 15 min of target practice
🏃‍♀️ Don’t forget the cardio!

Maintainer Summit North America 2025: Maintainer Summit Reception Sponsored by... View more about this event at Maintainer Summit North America 2025

Heading to the Maintainer’s Summit? 🍻 Be sure not to miss drinks, appetizers, and conversation with your fellow maintainers at STATS Brewpub to close out the day. See you there!

📅 Sunday November 9, 2025 5:30pm - 6:30pm EST

🔗 Add it to your schedule: buff.ly/zDgmL15

#KubeCon #CloudNativeCon

We ❤️ Trivy! You secure. You ship. Now it’s time to sip. 🍻
Join us on Nov 12 at STATS in Atlanta for beers, good vibes, and open source friends.

Register here: buff.ly/pzXLAxK

#Minimus #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon #ContainerSecurity

MinIO Docker Image Changes: What Happened and How to Find a - Minimus MinIO announced they will no longer publish free Docker images to Docker Hub. For teams affected by these changes, Minimus provides a secure MinIO alternative.

#MinIO recently announced they will no longer publish their free Docker images to Docker Hub. #Minimus offers a secure, drop-in alternative that's:

🧱 Minimal — zero-CVE base
🛡️ Secure — rebuilt with every update
🔍 Transparent — SBOMs + attestations

🔗 Read more: buff.ly/TC7IfLO

#ContainerSecurity

Have you started training for our DART competition at KubeCon? Get ready to win that Mini Cooper 💪 🚘

#Minimus #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon #MiniCooper #Cybersecurity

🎉🔐 Happy #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth! Watch Ashley Ward and Neil Carpenter break down how to build a container security program in the first episode of #KeepItContained - a new series from Minimus that answers your questions about container security.

🎬 buff.ly/XXFtbN7

#ContainerSecurity

🚗 It's been almost 6 months since our first Mini Cooper giveaway. We’re gearing up for round two! Get your throwing arm ready for another shot at winning a Mini at KubeCon! 🎯 💪

#Minimus #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon #MiniCooper #Cybersecurity

🏆 Thanks to our friends at Latio for naming Minimus a Cloud Security Segment Leader in the Latio 2025 Cloud Security Report.

Thank you to our customers for your trust and to our team ☁️ ✨

Read the full report here: buff.ly/KaFgHeT

#Minimus #CloudSecurity #Cybersecurity

The Cyber Resilience Act: What Open Source Users Should Know - Minimus The Cyber Resilience Act shifts security responsibility to vendors. Learn how it impacts open source software use and how to reduce your risk.

Are you ready for the Cyber Resilience Act? By 2027, the EU’s CRA will require products with digital elements to:

✅ Be secure by design
✅ Stay patched for 5 years
✅ Include SBOMs + vuln disclosure
✅ Separate security & feature updates

Learn more:

🎯 Start practicing your aim! We're shifting into gear for #KubeCon2025
Exploding brick walls not included, but yes...we're giving away another car.

#KubeCon #CloudNativeCon

Ready to upgrade your #KubeCon networking game? Join The New Stack, Blacksmith, @edera.dev, @minimus.io, @syntasso.io, and @tailscale.com for Night at the Aquarium, Nov 12 at the Georgia Aquarium.

🐳 It’s free, but space is limited → luma.com/940nj3xh

Minimus users talking to folks still pulling public images:
“You guys are getting CVEs?” 🤔

#Minimus #ContainerSecurity #ApplicationSecurity #DevSecOps #Cybersecurity

🔐✨🧩 Ever wonder what FIPS actually stands for, and why it matters for cryptography and compliance? Watch Minimus CTO John Morello break it down with Murugiah Souppaya (former NIST).

🎥 ⬇️ Full video linked in comments

You heard it here from this very real person on this very real news show. Minimus images are drop-in replacements for Bitnami images.

Learn more: buff.ly/y76v2ae

#Minimus #ContainerSecurity

🚦 In our latest blog post, Neil Carpenter breaks down how to use the Kyverno Admission Controller to enforce minimal, low-CVE base images in Kubernetes: buff.ly/UZdqMWn

Stay compliant without the headaches. ✅
Minimus Compliance Dashboards give you clear visibility for CIS, FIPS, and STIG compliance across your environment, right down to the image level.
Learn more: buff.ly/ZvTX1Ua

#Minimus #ContainerSecurity #ApplicationSecurity #DevSecOps #Cybersecurity

VEX reports can tell you whether or not a particular vulnerability affects your application. Minimus VEX support integrates this information directly into your workflow: buff.ly/Y9WeWCD

#Minimus #ContainerSecurity #ApplicationSecurity #DevSecOps #Cybersecurity #VEX

🛠️ Deploy Kubernetes stacks faster. Minimus Helm Charts come pre-configured to work with Minimus' hardened images out of the box. Learn more: buff.ly/5W2d3tq

#minimus #cybersecurity #containersecurity #applicationsecurity #devsecops

The hard part of custom images isn’t building them, it’s keeping them secure.

Our Image Creator lets you start from a hardened base, add what you need from 20k+ packages, and stay current with built-in security and updates: hubs.la/Q03Jx2C-0

🔹 Large attack surface
🔹 CVE noise with little context
🔹 Proving supply chain integrity

👆 These are problems most security teams are familiar with. Here's how Minimus can help: hubs.la/Q03J6GCZ0

#ContainerSecurity #Compliance #DevSecOps #ApplicationSecurity

FIPS Compliance for Containers: What Developers Need to Know - Minimus Learn what FIPS is, why FIPS compliance matters for developers, and tips for building and maintaining FIPS-compliant containers.

Learn what FIPS is, why it matters for developers, and how to build and maintain FIPS-compliant containers in this post by @kat.lol : hubs.la/Q03H_81d0

#minimus #cybersecurity #containersecurity #applicationsecurity #devsecops #FIPS

The amount of CVEs in your image matters, but so does how often new ones show up. That’s why we’re introducing a new metric, Mean Time to CVE (MTTC): hubs.la/Q03Hzcq10

#minimus #cybersecurity #containersecurity #applicationsecurity #devsecops

Compliance doesn’t have to mean endless spreadsheets. 📊 Minimus makes CIS, FIPS, and STIG compliance simple.

Learn more: t.co/us5xkFeYwP

@neilcar.bsky.social #minimus #cybersecurity #containersecurity #applicationsecurity #devsecops #FIPS #compliance

Using Open Source Vulnerability Scanners With Minimal Images - Minimus Learn about popular open source vulnerability scanners, and how using them alongside secure base images like Minimus simplifies vulnerability management.

🔍🐛 Which open source vulnerability scanner fits your workflow best?

@kat.lol breaks down the key differences between popular open source scanners + using them with minimal container images: hubs.la/Q03GVwyY0

#minimus #cybersecurity #containersecurity #opensource #vulnerabilityscanning

Navigating the Bitnami Pricing Changes - Minimus Bitnami has moved most images and Helm charts behind a paywall. Learn what’s changing, how to navigate it, and explore Minimus as a drop-in alternative.

#Bitnami is moving most images and Helm charts behind a paid tier.

If you're concerned about these changes, we're here to help. #Minimus offers secure, drop-in replacements and hardened Helm charts with 97% fewer vulnerabilities.

Learn more: hubs.la/Q03G0B9F0

#containersecurity #helmcharts

🛠️ Minimus hardened Helm charts are already configured to use our images. Each chart has been tested so the components work easily together out of the box.

Learn more about our Helm charts: hubs.la/Q03FTR7-0

#minimus #cybersecurity #containersecurity #applicationsecurity #devsecops

📍🌍 The Minimus team is at #OpenSourceSummit Europe! If you haven't had a chance, be sure to stop by the booth tomorrow to talk #ContainerSecurity with us.

#LinuxFoundation #minimus #cybersecurity #applicationsecurity #devsecops

🍽️❤️ Cannibalism as a metaphor for love… and what that means for open source. If you missed it during Black Hat, Kat Cosgrove dug into cannibalism in pop culture and and why passion can sometimes eat projects alive. @kat.lol

📺 Watch the talk here: hubs.la/Q03DTWL90

Neil Carpenter joined ASW to talk about why public base images contain more than you need, why the “patch everything” approach doesn’t work, and how minimal container images help with vulnerability management.

hubs.la/Q03DD2yc0

#minimus #cybersecurity #containersecurity #applicationsecurity