Chainguard Container for distribution

The toolkit to pack, ship, store, and deliver container content

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/distribution:latest

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

Usage

There are various ways to run the distribution image, the simplest way of running the distribution image is to use the following command:

$ docker run -d -p 5000:5000 --restart=always --name registry cgr.dev/chainguard/distribution:latest

For more information about deploying the registry, you can check the official documentation.

Then you should be able to access the registry on http://localhost:5000.

In order to push and pull images from the registry, you may want to use crane tool which is a tool for interacting with container registries.

In case you want to test the registry with crane, you can use the following commands:

crane copy alpine:latest localhost:5000/alpine:latest

and check for the tags for the alpine image:

$ crane ls localhost:5000/alpine
latest

In case you want to deploy it on Kubernetes, you can use the following Helm chart: https://distribution.github.io/distribution/about/deploying/

helm repo add twuni https://helm.twun.io
helm repo update

You can then install the chart with the following command:

helm install registry twuni/docker-registry \
   --set image.tag=latest \
   --set image.repository=cgr.dev/chainguard/distribution

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

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.

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