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An open-source distribution of Kubernetes from AWS
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.
Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D) is a Kubernetes distribution based on and used by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to create reliable and secure Kubernetes clusters. For more Information
This deployment includes the following critical components:
For installation instructions, visit the EBS CSI Driver Install Guide.
To deploy using Helm charts, you can use the following command. This command overrides the default image to use the Chainguard image
Refer to the values.yaml file for more configuration options.
To test the EBS CSI driver functionality and verify its deployment, we need to create and deploy an EKS cluster. Similarly, for testing kube-components, we can create and deploy a KOPS cluster and update the manifests accordingly.
Using the Chainguard Pause image requires changing the containerd configuration on the EKS nodes. If you've SSH access to the underlying nodes of the cluster, then you can edit the containerd configuration file directly. If you don't have access to the nodes then you can use a plugin called kubectl-node-shell
In containerd configuration, the default sandbox_image
needs to be replaced with the Chainguard pause image. Use the editor of your choice to replace the default pause image with the Chainguard pause image which is cgr.dev/chainguard/eks-distro-kubernetes-pause:latest
.
To replace the default pause image with the Chainguard pause image, you need to edit the containerd config file on the node.
After this, restart the containerd service:
Checking the list of containers using the ctr
command will show the pause container with the Chainguard pause image.
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.
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" tag 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.