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Sign UpWolfi-based images for cert-manager, a tool for provisioning and managing TLS certificates in Kubernetes.
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.
Chainguard's cert-manager images are comparable to the official cert-manager tools found in the project's official GitHub repository.
cert-manager is composed of multiple container images:
These can be deployed separately, but are typically deployed together leveraging the official cert-manager Helm chart.
The following is an example of how to use Chainguard's cert-manager images with the official Helm chart:
Be sure to replace $ORGANIZATION
with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard registry. Additionally, please note that if the required CRDs are not available in the cluster, the Helm chart will fail if --set installCRDs=true
is omitted.
Please refer to the upstream documentation for full instructions on how to use and deploy cert-manager with Helm.
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.
To better understand how to work with Chainguard Containers, please visit Chainguard Academy and Chainguard Courses.
In addition to Containers, Chainguard offers VMs and Libraries. Contact Chainguard to access additional products.
This software listing is packaged by Chainguard. The trademarks set forth in this offering are owned by their respective companies, and use of them does not imply any affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement by such companies.
Chainguard container images contain software packages that are direct or transitive dependencies. The following licenses were found in the "latest" version of this image:
Apache-2.0
LGPL-2.1-or-later
MIT
MPL-2.0
For a complete list of licenses, please refer to this Image's SBOM.
Software license agreementA FIPS validated version of this image is available for FedRAMP compliance. STIG is included with FIPS image.