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Container Images

Score 19.3 / 100 18 providers +2 via APIs 11 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (18)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Amazon EC2 Image BuilderAmazon Web ServicesAutomationEC21 API58.9JFrog Container RegistryContainersDockerHelm1 API57.6Amazon ECRAmazon Web ServicesContainer RegistryContainers1 API57.2
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Snyk ContainerContainersKubernetesSecurity1 API51.8Azure Container RegistryAzureContainersDocker1 API48.8Cloud Native BuildpacksBuild ToolsCI/CDCloud-NativeCNCF10 APIs47.4QuayContainersRed HatRegistry1 API42.6
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
GitHub Container RegistryContainersGitHubPackages1 API39.0GitLab Container RegistryContainersGitLabRegistry1 API35.4MinimusCompanyContainer SecuritySupply Chain Security31.4BuildahBuild ToolsCI/CDContainers27.6
Emerging 7 Early or largely undocumented
ChainguardCloud-NativeContainersDevSecOps6 APIs25.2DistrolessCloud-NativeContainersGoogle1 API20.5GrypeContainersOpen-SourceSBOM1 API17.3KanikoArchivedBuild ToolsCLI1 API16.8JibBuild ToolsContainersGoogle1 API14.7KoBuild ToolsContainersGo1 API14.7BootcCNCFInfrastructureOCI11.6

APIs with this tag (11)

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Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Datadog Container Images APIThe Container Images API allows you to get all container images for your organization. It provides visibili...63.6JFrog Container RegistryJFrog Container Registry is a free, hybrid, and multi-cloud Docker registry and Helm chart repository for m...57.6
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Buildpack APIThe Buildpack API is the contract between a buildpack and the lifecycle. It defines the detect and build ex...47.4Platform APIThe Platform API is the contract between the CNB lifecycle and a platform such as pack, kpack, or a CI runn...47.4
Thin 2 Limited public surface area
imgpkgimgpkg bundles and distributes application configuration and container images as OCI artifacts via Docker r...38.3kbldkbld builds or references container images in Kubernetes configuration in an immutable way by resolving ima...38.3
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
DistrolessDistroless images by Google contain only the application and its runtime dependencies, stripping out packag...20.5GrypeGrype is an open source vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems developed by Anchore. It...17.3Kaniko CLIKaniko is a command-line tool distributed as the container image gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor that builds...16.8JibJib is an open-source container image builder from Google that builds optimized Docker and OCI images for J...14.7Koko is a simple, fast container image builder for Go applications that does not require Docker, producing sm...14.7

Companies reaching this through an API (2)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Container Images” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Carvel Datadog

Score breakdown

Frequency
39.7
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.5
spread across providers
Quality lift
39.0
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
10.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Build Tools 5 co-occurrences OCI 6 co-occurrences Containers 17 co-occurrences Registry 8 co-occurrences CLI 5 co-occurrences Kubernetes 6 co-occurrences Open-Source 7 co-occurrences Security 6 co-occurrences

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