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The Chainguard aws-cli-fips
container image is comparable to the upstream Amazon AWS CLI image, with improved security and few-to-zero CVEs.
This Chainguard Container ships with a validated redistribution of the OpenSSL's FIPS provider module. For more on FIPS support in Chainguard Containers, consult the guide on FIPS-enabled Chainguard Containers on Chainguard Academy.
Before using the aws-cli-fips
Chainguard Container, you need to configure your AWS credentials. There are a number of ways you can do this, so we encourage you to review the official AWS credentials documentation to determine what method works best for you.
AWS credentials and configurations are typically stored in a directory named .aws
. Assuming you've already set up your AWS credentials locally, you can share them from your host machine to a container by mounting this directory as a volume. The following command follows this method to retrieve a list of S3 buckets:
Note that Chainguard's aws-cli-fips
container image has a single user nonroot
with uid 65532
, belonging to gid 65532
; the previous command mounts the local .aws
directory under this user's home directory. Be aware that if you follow this method you may need to adjust the permissions of your local credentials file in order for the container to be able to read it.
Chainguard Containers are minimal container images that are secure by default.
In many cases, the Chainguard Containers tagged as :latest
contain only an open-source application and its runtime dependencies. These minimal container images typically do not contain a shell or package manager. Chainguard Containers are built with Wolfi, our Linux undistro 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 -dev
variant.
Although the -dev
container image variants have similar security features as their more minimal versions, they feature additional software that is typically not necessary in production environments. We recommend using multi-stage builds to leverage the -dev
variants, copying application artifacts into a final minimal container that offers a reduced attack surface that won’t allow package installations or logins.
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Chainguard 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-2-Clause
GCC-exception-3.1
GPL-3.0-or-later
LGPL-2.1-or-later
MIT
MPL-2.0
For a complete list of licenses, please refer to this Image's SBOM.
Software license agreementThis is a FIPS validated image for FedRAMP compliance.
This image is STIG hardened and scanned against the DISA General Purpose Operating System SRG with reports available.
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