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Distroless

Distroless images by Google contain only the application and its runtime dependencies, stripping out package managers, shells, and other OS-level utilities to minimize attack surface and image size. The smallest variant (gcr.io/distroless/static-debian12) is roughly 2 MB. Distroless ships base images for static binaries, glibc-based binaries, C/C++, Java (17, 21, 25), Node.js (22, 24), and Python 3, with multi-architecture support including amd64, arm64, arm, s390x, ppc64le, and riscv64. Adopters include Kubernetes, Knative, Tekton, and Teleport.

Distroless publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Cloud-Native, Container Images, Containers, Google, and Security.

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11.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0
AccessFreemium
1 APIs
Cloud-NativeContainer ImagesContainersGoogleSecurity

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 11.8/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Access Clarity 3.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Contract Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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Distroless

Distroless images by Google contain only the application and its runtime dependencies, stripping out package managers, shells, and other OS-level utilities to minimize attack su...

Pricing Plans 1

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Distroless Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

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Distroless Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

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Distroless Finops

FINOPS

Resources

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Container Registry
Container Registry

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ContributionGuide
ContributionGuide

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GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

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SecurityPolicy
SecurityPolicy

Operate 1

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Issues
Issues

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License
License

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Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: distroless
name: Distroless
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/distroless/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
modified: '2026-04-28'
created: '2026-03-26'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/distroless.png
tags:
- Cloud-Native
- Container Images
- Containers
- Google
- Security
tags_raw:
- Cloud Native
- Container Images
- Containers
- Google
- Security
description: Distroless images by Google contain only the application and its runtime dependencies, stripping out package
  managers, shells, and other OS-level utilities to minimize attack surface and image size. The smallest variant (gcr.io/distroless/static-debian12)
  is roughly 2 MB. Distroless ships base images for static binaries, glibc-based binaries, C/C++, Java (17, 21, 25), Node.js
  (22, 24), and Python 3, with multi-architecture support including amd64, arm64, arm, s390x, ppc64le, and riscv64. Adopters
  include Kubernetes, Knative, Tekton, and Teleport.
apis:
- aid: distroless:distroless
  name: Distroless
  description: Distroless images by Google contain only the application and its runtime dependencies, stripping out package
    managers, shells, and other OS-level utilities to minimize attack surface and image size.
  humanURL: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless
  tags:
  - Container Images
  - Containers
  - Google
  - Security
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless/blob/main/README.md
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless/blob/main/README.md#how-do-i-use-distroless-images
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless
  - type: Container Registry
    url: https://gcr.io/distroless
common:
- type: SecurityPolicy
  url: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless/blob/main/SECURITY.md
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: License
  name: Apache-2.0
  url: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: Website
  url: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools
- type: Container Registry
  url: https://gcr.io/distroless
- type: Issues
  url: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless/issues
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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