ottomatica/slim
Build and run tiny vms from Dockerfiles. Small and sleek. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 2713
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1276
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2129 stars · 54 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Slim is a Node.js CLI tool that builds tiny, fast-booting virtual machine images from Dockerfiles. It extracts a rootfs, kernel, and initrd from a Docker build and packages them into raw, VHD, or other VM image formats.
Use cases
- build a tiny VM image from a Dockerfile
- create bootable VM images for Hyper-V or QEMU
- make minimal Alpine RAM-only VMs
- generate cloud-init enabled Ubuntu VM images
- run lightweight micro VMs on Apple Silicon Macs
When to choose
- you want VM images defined with familiar Dockerfile syntax
- you need small, fast-booting micro VMs with limited resource usage
- you want to reuse Docker build tooling to produce kernel/rootfs/initrd artifacts
When to avoid
- you need full container orchestration rather than VM image building
- you require actively maintained tooling with recent releases
- you want standard Docker containers instead of real VMs
Facets
cli-tool · maturity maintenance
container-runtime build-tool developer-tools cloud-computing developer-tools windows cli micro-vm dockerfile virtualization vm-images cloud-init rootfs containers devops linux macos nodejs docker
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/ottomatica/slim · fetched 2026-08-28 · 2e6ad47092d9
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| ottomatica/slim | main | 32 |
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