Chainguard Container for cluster-api

Home for Cluster API, a subproject of sig-cluster-lifecycle

Chainguard Containers are regularly-updated, secure-by-default container images.

Download this Container Image

For those with access, this container image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/cluster-api:latest

Be sure to replace the ORGANIZATION placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard Registry.

Compatibility Notes

Chainguard's Cluster-Api image is comparable to Kubernetes Sig Cluster-Api on Docker Hub. Chainguard's image contains only the minimum set of dependencies needed to run the different components.

Getting Started

Start by creating a Kubernetes manifest that allows the Docker provider to access Docker on the host:

kind: Cluster
apiVersion: kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4
networking:
  ipFamily: dual
nodes:
- role: control-plane
  extraMounts:
    - hostPath: /var/run/docker.sock
      containerPath: /var/run/docker.sock

Next, apply this manifest above by creating a cluster. The following example will create a Kubernetes cluster with kind:

kind create cluster -config config.yaml

Next, initialize a management cluster against the host cluster:

docker run -d \
    cgr.dev/<ORGANISATION>/cluster-api-clusterctl:latest \
    clusterctl init \
    --kubeconfig <KUBECONFIG> \
    --infrastructure vcluster \
    --core cluster-api \
    --bootstrap kubeadm \
    --control-plane kubeadm \
    --wait-providers=false

Generate a manifest for creating clusters:

docker run -d \
    cgr.dev/<ORGANISATION>/cluster-api-clusterctl:latest \
    clusterctl generate cluster ${CLUSTER_NAME} \
    --infrastructure vcluster \
    --kubernetes-version ${KUBERNETES_VERSION} \
    --target-namespace ${CLUSTER_NAMESPACE} > cluster-manifest.yaml

Documentation and Resources

• cluster-api GitHub Repository
• cluster-api Documentation

What are Chainguard Containers?

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:

• Minimal design, without unnecessary software bloat
• Daily builds to ensure container images are up-to-date with available security patches
• High quality build-time SBOMs attesting to the provenance of all artifacts within the image
• Verifiable signatures provided by Sigstore
• Reproducible builds with Cosign and apko (read more about reproducibility)

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.

Learn More

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