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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.
Note that there is also glibc version of this Image available:
On July 15, 2024 several images in this repository will move from a Alpine base to a Wolfi base, in-line with all other images in our registry. We do not expect this to cause breakages, but encourage all users to test and verify the new versions.
The affected tags are:
latest
latest-root
latest-dev
latest-root-dev
You can test today by migrating to one of the following images:
latest-glibc
latest-glibc-root
latest-glibc-dev
latest-glibc-root-dev
From July 15 the glibc
tag and the corresponding tag without glibc
will point to the same
images.
Full details are in this blog post.
Chainguard's Git Image allows you to run ordinary Git commands in CI/CD pipelines and also locally via Docker.
To make sure you have the latest version of the Image available, start by running a docker pull
command:
Then, run the Image with the --version
flag to make sure the Image is functional:
You will receive output similar to this:
Because your local system user's unique identifier might differ from that of the container, you'll need to set up special permissions for the target directory if you want to use this Image to clone repositories locally. Once you've configured these permissions, you'll be able to set up a volume and have the contents of the cloned repository replicated on your host machine.
First, create a target directory somewhere in your home folder and set the required permissions:
Now you can use docker run
to execute the git clone
command, using the directory you just set up as a volume shared between your local machine and the container Image:
Here, the volume is mounted to the /home/git
directory in the container.
This will return output like the following:
You can now check the contents of your workspace
directory, where you will find the cloned repository:
If you do not want to make the destination directory world-writable, you can run the git executable inside the container with your UID, thus giving it access to the directory:
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
BSD-3-Clause
GCC-exception-3.1
GPL-2.0-or-later
GPL-3.0-or-later
ISC
LGPL-2.0-or-later
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.