Slim. Safe. Secure.

Open Source

Slim is growing and adding support for new container tools and infrastructure.

Kyle Quest

Co-Founder

5 Best Practices Production-Ready Containers

Knowing what’s in a container is critical to securing your software supply chain.

Martin Wimpress

Community

5 Ways Slim Containers Save You Money

Do slim containers really save you money on your cloud bill? Are there cost advantages to smaller containers? Find out here.

Chris Tozzi

Increasing Your CI/CD Velocity with Slim Containers

We’ll explain what Slim Containers are, how they speed up the build process, and how they can improve the efficiency of your testing.

Mike Mackrory

Contributor

2022 Public Container Report

Vulnerabilities continue to increase and developers are struggling to keep up.

Ayse Kaya

Analytics & Strategy

PaymentWorks Fully Automates Container Hardening in the CI/CD Pipeline

Case Study

Secure payments platform eliminates 89% of container vulnerabilities with no additional developer overhead

Anne James

Product Marketing

Why Developers Shouldn't Have to Be Infrastructure Experts, Too

Simplifying processes required to containerize and deploy cloud-native apps.

Chris Tozzi

Are Scratch Containers More Secure?

We dive into the intricacies of whether or not you should build a container from scratch, or use a tool like DockerSlim to harden your containers.

Vince Power

Contributor

Container Insights: Dissecting the World's Most Popular Containers

Join Ayse Kaya in this series, as she creates her 2022 Container Report Chalk Full of Important Security Findings for Developers.

Ayse Kaya

Analytics & Strategy

Building SlimToolkit into a Jenkins Pipeline

A step by step tutorial on building SlimToolkit into your CI/CD pipeline.

Clarifying the Complex: Meet Ivan Velichko, Container Dude at Slim.AI

Ivan recently joined the team at Slim.AI, and we sat down with him to learn more about the path that led him here.

Ivan Velichko

Container Dude

Five Things You Should Never Ship to Production in a Container

Here is our take on five things to avoid when creating a container or shipping it to production.

Chris Tozzi

Better Security Audits with AppArmor and SecComp via SlimToolkit

Combine the power of tools like SecComp, NGINX, and Docker.

In the Media: The Latest Slim.AI Updates

Media

Latest Mentions in the News on our Docker Extension, Early Access Program and Software Supply Chain Security Solution.

5 Most Commonly Asked SlimToolkit Questions

We enlisted SlimToolkit expert and Slim.AI Developer Experience Engineer to dive into how container slimming works.

Primož Ajdišek

Technical Staff

Meet SlimToolkit's Compose Mode

Docker Compose

Optimize a multi-tier app with a single command

Ian Juma

Technical Staff

The 4th S of Software Supply Chain Security

An approach to Front Line Software Supply Chain Security (SSCS).

John Amaral

CEO

Containerizing Python Apps for Lambda

Python

A tutorial on deploying AWS Lambda using containers, Python edition.

Slim.AI and OSI: Why We Advocate for Open Source

Slim.AI continues its support of OSI and sponsors the OSI licensing API as a part of its ongoing advocacy for open source

Pieter van Noordennen

Growth

Slim.AI Docker Extension for Docker Desktop

How to access our Docker Extension and try it for yourself.

Josh Viney

Product

From Open Source to Open Design: Building Our First Docker Extension

The Design behind our Docker Extension.

Sam Johnston

Senior Product Designer

The DockerSlim Origin Story

How DockerSlim got its start at Docker's Global Hack Day, and the creation of Slim.AI.

Kyle Quest

CTO

Automating SlimToolkit in Your CICD Pipeline

Using GitHub Actions, you can refine container images automatically making them smaller, faster to load, and more secure by default – all without sacrificing any capabilities.

Nicolas Bohorquez

Contributor

Slimming a Rails Application with SlimToolkit

Dissect a simple Rails application container using SlimToolkit to analyze, optimize, and deploy your product more quickly.

Theofanis Despoudis

Contributor

Using AppArmor and SecComp Profiles for Security Audits

Conduct better container security audits using tools like SecComp, NGINX, and Docker.

In the Media: Slim.AI Series A of $31M

Latest Mentions

Integrate Testing into Your Container Pipeline

A closer look at testing within container pipelines, CI/CD, software delivery, and containerization.

Faith Kilonzi

Software Engineer

Growth and Gratitude: Series A Announcement

Community

Sincere thanks to our community of developers and early adopters.

John Amaral

CEO

Where Shift Left Goes Wrong

Devops

As if cloud infrastructure were not complex enough, there’s a whole new complication to contend with: Shifting left.

John Amaral

CEO

Automatically reduce Docker container size using SlimToolkit

REST Web Service example using Python/Flask

John Amaral

CEO

5 Common Container Exploits

Devops

From Malware, to Access Control Risks, and Beyond

Chris Tozzi

Contributor

What SlimToolkit Users Get Out of Slim's SaaS Platform

Community

Scaling Your Container Game

Martin Wimpress

Community

Creating a Container Pipeline with GitLab CI

Shipping containers the easy way

Nicolas Bohorquez

Contributor

Building Apps Using Cloud Native Buildpacks

Getting started with this innovative technique

Vince Power

Contributor

Getting Started with Multi-Container Apps

Docker Compose

Up your container game with Docker Compose

Nicholas Bohorquez

Contributor

Five Proven Ways to Debug a Container

Debugging

When Things Just Are Not Working

Theofanis Despoudis

Contributor

What We Discovered Analyzing the Top 100 Public Container Images

Complexity abounds in modern development

Ayse Kaya

Analytics & Strategy

Improving the Developer Experience When Adopting Cloud-Native Best Practices

Case Study

PaymentWorks Case Study

Josh Viney

Product

Slim.AI Announces KubeCon+CloudNativeCon `21 Schedule

Events

Hybrid schedule focus on Twitch

Join Us At Open Source Summit `21

Events

Virtual or in Seattle, we'll be there

In the Media: SlimToolkit and Slim.AI

Latest Mentions

Quick Start Guide

Docs

Slim Developer Platform Early Access

Comparing Container Versions with SlimToolkit and Slim.AI

Debugging

See differences between your original and slimmed images

Pieter van Noordennen

Growth

Meet Martin Wimpress, Head of Community at Slim.AI

Community

Q&A

Martin talks developer experience, community development and personal projects

Where Do You Store Your Container Images?

Container Registry Options are Growing in Number and Complexity

Pieter van Noordennen

Growth

Q&A With Priceline CTO Marty Brodbeck

Q&A

Livestream

Video

We talk container workflows, DevX, and cloud-native at scale

Serverless Applications and Docker

How to Scale the Latest Trend in Infrastructure

Pieter van Noordennen

Growth

The Squeak Interview

Q&A

Video

CEO John Amaral joins Chris on his livestream

Docker Containers for Your Raspberry Pi

IOT

Compact PCs need compact apps

Martin Wimpress

Community

Container of the Week: Python & Flask

Python

Our weekly breakdown of a popular container

What’s in your container?

Why Docker Layers matter for container optimization

Pieter van Noordennen

Growth

Explore and Analyze a Docker container with SlimToolkit's X-Ray

Understanding container composition

Martin Wimpress

Community

What We’re Building at Slim.AI

A DevX Platform for Container Management

Josh Viney

Product

A New Workflow for Cloud Development

Leverage the benefits of containerization without the headaches & hassle

John Amaral

CEO

Why Don’t We Practice Container Best Practices?

Container best practices are easy to understand, hard to do

John Amaral

CEO

Cloud Development Is Still Too Manual & Complex

Lessons we learned from interviewing more than 30 developers

John Amaral

CEO

Reducing Docker Image Size - Slimming vs Compressing

Know the difference

Pieter van Noordennen

Growth

Unpacking Culture That Works

Culture

Building Culture and Growth in Teams

Why We Founded Slim.AI

Developers Just Want to Write Code. How Slim.AI is Helping.

John Amaral

CEO

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