ghcr.io/shelmangroup/distroless-k8s is a CI/CD optimized container image for working with Kubernetes. Made with apko, melange and 💖.

Automatically built, reproducible, images with kubectl, kustomize, helm and a few other commonly used tools. This project puts emphasis on automatic regular updates, security, and keeping the image size as small as possible.

The images are currently built for amd64 and arm64 architectures. If you'd like to see other architectures supported, please submit an issue.

The images are published to GitHub Container Registry at ghcr.io/shelmangroup/distroless-k8s. They are also tagged with the kubernetes/kubectl full and minor version to make it easy to match a given cluster for compatibility.

% podman run --rm -it ghcr.io/shelmangroup/distroless-k8s:1.24
 _     ___
| |   / _ \           kubectl: v1.24.3
| | _| (_) |___       kustomize: v4.5.5
| |/ /> _ </ __|      kapp: v0.49.0
|   <| (_) \__ \      kbld: v0.34.0
|_|\_\\___/|___/      helm: v3.9.1


More info: https://github.com/shelmangroup/distroless-k8s

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% podman run --rm -it distroless-k8s-dev kustomize version
{Version:kustomize/v4.5.5 GitCommit:daa3e5e2c2d3a4b8c94021a7384bfb06734bcd26 BuildDate:2022-05-20T20:25:40Z GoOs:linux GoArch:amd64}

• kubectl
• kustomize
• helm
• kapp
• kbld

The tool binaries are stripped and compressed with UPX to reduce the size of the image (from ~160MiB to ~50MiB). Often, only one or two of the tools are needed in a use case so optimizing for a smaller download makes sense, the tradeoff being a short decompression time when running a tool.