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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.

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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

Distroless Plans Pricing

3 plans

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Rate Limits

Distroless Rate Limits

5 limits

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FinOps

Distroless Finops

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Issues
Issues

Sources

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: distroless
name: Distroless
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/distroless/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
modified: '2026-04-28'
created: '2026-03-26'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- 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: 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