# Distroless

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/distroless/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 11.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 11.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **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...

## Plans (1)

- **Distroless Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Cloud-Native, Container Images, Containers, Google, Security

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/distroless/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.