8 alternatives to slim
slimtoolkit/slim — Slim(toolkit): Don't change anything in your container image and minify it by up to 30x (and for compiled languages even more) making it secure too! (free and open source) (23,479 stars, Apache-2.0, infra, dev-tools, integration).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 218 licence-cleared components from slimtoolkit/slim itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moby/moby | 7.1 | Apache-2.0 | 72,197 |
| 2 | kubernetes/kubernetes | 7.7 | Apache-2.0 | 128,584 |
| 3 | dokku/dokku | 6.5 | MIT | 32,201 |
| 4 | abiosoft/colima | 7.3 | MIT | 31,388 |
| 5 | aquasecurity/trivy | 4.8 | Apache-2.0 | 38,706 |
| 6 | googlecontainertools/jib | 4.6 | Apache-2.0 | 14,452 |
| 7 | google/gvisor | 4.7 | Apache-2.0 | 19,781 |
| 8 | moby/buildkit | 4.5 | Apache-2.0 | 10,342 |
The alternatives in detail
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The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
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Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Managementscore 7.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 128,584 stars · 3,000 components · search them · alternatives
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A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications
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Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
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Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
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🏗 Build container images for your Java applications.score 4.6/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 14,452 stars · 332 components · search them
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Application Kernel for Containersscore 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 19,781 stars · 1,868 components · search them
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concurrent, cache-efficient, and Dockerfile-agnostic builder toolkitscore 4.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 10,342 stars · 613 components · search them
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