RapidFort provides no-cost migration assistance to Minimus customers, trial users and evaluators.
Near-zero CVE images
Keep your existing workflows
Major, minor and older versions

curated near-zero CVE images, ready to pull
of CVEs eliminated, continuously
attack surface reduction
day patch SLA, critical then everything else
Continuously patched and scanned
No further updates after Oct 22, 2026
35,000+ images, majors and minors
Operations ending
7 days critical, 14 days everything else
Maintenance period ends Oct 22, 2026
FIPS-validated, STIG and CIS, FedRAMP ready
No further updated images provided
Your applications inherit thousands of vulnerabilities from base images and open source. RapidFort eliminates them at the source, so you ship from a clean foundation.

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Plug-and-play replacements that slide right into your stack.
Built on Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat and Alpine, across major versions and minors.
Rich metadata built in, compatible with every major scanner.
Open and independent. No proprietary base, no trademark-restricted variants.
FIPS-validated crypto and a hardened, STIG-compliant OS out of the box.
Critical CVEs fixed in 7 days, everything else in 14.
FedRAMP and major frameworks supported from day one.
Dedicated customer success and hands-on implementation help.
Curated Images ship hardened and validated for regulated and mission-critical environments.
Reach out to begin planning your migration before October 22, 2026.
Drop near-zero CVE images into your CI/CD pipeline, pin for pin-compatible, with no re-baselining.
Scan continuously, track CVE drift, generate SBOMs and prioritize real risk.
Harden to NIST 800-70, validate to FIPS and auto-generate audit evidence.
FREE migration support for Minimus customers, trials and evaluations.
RapidFort Curated Images. RapidFort provides over 35,000 curated near-zero CVE container images built on trusted LTS distributions including Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, and Alpine, hardened to NIST 800-70, FIPS 140-2 and 140-3 validated, STIG and CIS benchmarked. They are Drop-in replacements.
Yes. Minimus has announced it is ending operations. A 60-day maintenance period began on 24 August 2026 and the Minimus registry is scheduled to shut down on October 22, 2026.
According to the Minimus notice, images pulled before October 22, 2026 continue to function, but no further updated images will be provided.
Yes. RapidFort provides no-cost migration assistance to existing Minimus customers and to organizations currently running a Minimus trial, evaluation or proof of concept.
No. RapidFort Curated Images are Drop-in replacements, pin for pin-compatible with your existing CI/CD pipeline, with no re-baselining. RapidFort eliminates up to 99.9% of CVEs with no code changes.
Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat and Alpine, across major versions and minors, with continued patching for older versions.
The Minimus registry, reg.mini.dev, is scheduled to be switched off on October 22, 2026, according to the notice published by Minimus.
Yes. Curated Images are hardened to NIST 800-70, FIPS 140-2 and 140-3 validated, STIG and CIS benchmarked and support FedRAMP, cATO, CMMC, SOC 2, CRA and SLSA readiness. RapidFort provides DISA validated OS support and is Iron Bank approved.
Up to 99.9% of CVEs, eliminated continuously. Most vulnerabilities are inherited from base images and open source before a line of code is written and Curated Images remove them at the source so you start from a clean foundation.
Critical CVEs are fixed within 7 days and everything else within 14. Images are continuously patched, including older versions, so you are not left waiting on a fix.
Yes. Curated Images ship with rich metadata built in and are compatible with every major scanner, so your existing security tooling keeps working.
Over 35,000 curated images covering common stacks like Node.js, Python, Go, OpenJDK, Postgres, Redis, NGINX, RabbitMQ and Grafana, all built on trusted LTS distributions, including older versions.
Curated Images deliver up to 99.9% CVE elimination across both distroless and full images, not distroless only. They are built on trusted LTS distributions with no vendor lock-in and are STIG and CIS benchmarked with FIPS-validated cryptography.
The migration assistance is provided at no cost to Minimus customers, trial users and evaluators. RapidFort Curated Images are a production-grade catalog, continuously patched, with enterprise support.
It depends on the size of your image inventory. Because Curated Images are Drop-in replacements, RapidFort works directly with you to review your current Minimus usage and move you to the right images without re-baselining.