Chainguard Container for envoy

Envoy Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy

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/envoy:latest

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

Compatibility Notes

The Chainguard Envoy image is meant to serve as a drop-in replacement for the following alternatives:

• bitnami/envoy:latest
• envoyproxy/envoy:v1.25-latest
• rapidfort/envoy:1.24
• envoyproxy/envoy:latest

Like most of Chainguard's images, the Envoy image does not operate as the root user and includes only the minimum packages needed to function.

Getting Started

The Chainguard Envoy image comes with a default configuration stored at /etc/envoy/envoy.yaml. To run the image with Docker using this configuration you could run a command like the following:

docker run -p10000:10000 -p 9901:9901 cgr.dev/chainguard/envoy --config-path /etc/envoy/envoy.yaml

The -p options in this example connect network ports from your local machine into the container, allowing you to see Envoy in action by visiting localhost:10000 or localhost:9901 in your browser. The default configuration will proxy port 10000 to envoyproxy.io and port 9901 to the Envoy management port.

You can also run the image with a customized Envoy configuration. To do this, you'll need to bind mount your local configuration file into the envoy container:

docker run -p10000:10000 -p 9901:9901 -v $PWD/config.yaml:/etc/envoy cgr.dev/chainguard/envoy --config-path /etc/envoy/config.yaml

This example creates a bind mount so that Envoy is running with a local configuration file named config.yaml.

You can refer to the overview in the envoy project's official documentation for more information on working with custom configurations.

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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