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Minimalist images for the six core Airbyte data-integration services: bootloader (DB migrations + seed), server (REST/public API), worker (sync executor), cron (scheduler), workload-api-server (workload queue), and workload-launcher (dataplane daemon).
Chainguard Containers are regularly-updated, secure-by-default container images.
For those with access, this container image is available on cgr.dev:
Be sure to replace the ORGANIZATION placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard Registry.
The airbyte-platform image group is comparable to the six upstream backend images that make up an Airbyte v2 deployment. Each Chainguard image is a drop-in replacement for its upstream counterpart:
| Chainguard image | Upstream image | Component |
|---|---|---|
| One-shot DB migrations, default dataplane + workspace seed | |
| REST and public API backend | |
| Temporal-driven sync executor | |
| Scheduled workload monitor and definitions refresh | |
| HTTP API for the workload queue | |
| Data-plane daemon that launches connector Pods |
Switching from the upstream airbyte/* images to the Chainguard versions should not require any changes to your existing setup — deploy them through the standard airbyte/airbyte umbrella Helm chart.
Customers deploy this image group through the upstream airbyte/airbyte umbrella chart, overriding each component's image to point at the Chainguard registry. Add the upstream Helm repository:
Create a values file that overrides all six images:
Be sure to replace the ORGANIZATION placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard Registry.
Install the chart into a new namespace:
Helm will deploy the full Airbyte stack — bootloader, server, worker, workload launcher, workload API server, cron, database, and Temporal — with every core component running on Chainguard images. Wait for the bootloader to finish and each daemon to come up:
Confirm the platform is healthy by hitting the server's anonymous health endpoint through a port-forward:
Chainguard's free tier of Starter container images are built with Wolfi, our minimal Linux undistro.
All other Chainguard Containers are built with Chainguard OS, Chainguard's minimal Linux operating system designed to produce container images that meet the requirements of a more secure software supply chain.
The main features of Chainguard Containers include:
For cases where you need container images with shells and package managers to build or debug, most Chainguard Containers come paired with a development, or -dev, variant.
In all other cases, including Chainguard Containers tagged as :latest or with a specific version number, the container images include only an open-source application and its runtime dependencies. These minimal container images typically do not contain a shell or package manager.
Although the -dev container image variants have similar security features as their more minimal versions, they include additional software that is typically not necessary in production environments. We recommend using multi-stage builds to copy artifacts from the -dev variant into a more minimal production image.
To improve security, Chainguard Containers include only essential dependencies. Need more packages? Chainguard customers can use Custom Assembly to add packages, either through the Console, chainctl, or API.
To use Custom Assembly in the Chainguard Console: navigate to the image you'd like to customize in your Organization's list of images, and click on the Customize image button at the top of the page.
Refer to our Chainguard Containers documentation on Chainguard Academy. Chainguard also offers VMs and Libraries — contact us for access.
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Chainguard's container images contain software packages that are direct or transitive dependencies. The following licenses were found in the "latest" tag of this image:
Apache-2.0
BSD-3-Clause
Bitstream-Vera
CC-PDDC
Classpath-exception-2.0
Elastic-2.0
FTL
For a complete list of licenses, please refer to this Image's SBOM.
Software license agreementChainguard Containers are SLSA Level 3 compliant with detailed metadata and documentation about how it was built. We generate build provenance and a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for each release, with complete visibility into the software supply chain.
SLSA compliance at ChainguardThis image helps reduce time and effort in establishing PCI DSS 4.0 compliance with low-to-no CVEs.
PCI DSS at ChainguardA FIPS validated version of this image is available for FedRAMP compliance. STIG is included with FIPS image.