Chainguard Container for gradle

Chainguard Image with Gradle, an open source build system for Java, Android, and Kotlin.

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/gradle: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 Gradle image is comparable to the official Gradle image on Docker Hub. Like most other Chainguard images, the Gradle image has few-to-zero CVEs and does not run as the root user. Additionally, the Chainguard Gradle image's default entrypoint is /usr/bin/gradle.

Getting Started

Chainguard Gradle images come with different versions of OpenJDK; ensure you choose the correct image tag for your application needs.

If you are running Docker on Mac M1 you may experience intermittent container high CPU and container / JVM crashes. There have been reports of this behavior, which is known to also affect non-Chainguard images. It is expected that using ARM based images, which are in development for Chainguard images, will address the problem. When running the examples below you might experience Gradle builds hanging. If you do, you can docker ps and docker kill $PID and retry.

To use the Chainguard Gradle image with Docker, run commands that follow this syntax:

docker run cgr.dev/chainguard/gradle:latest-dev <gradle-task>

For example, to run an existing project you have on your local machine, you could run a command like the following:

docker run -v "${PWD}":/home/build/project -w /home/build/project cgr.dev/chainguard/gradle:latest run

To show the Gradle image building and running a sample application, we will use the latest-dev variant of the image, which includes a shell.

First, run the image with the -it and entrypoint=/bin/sh arguments to access the shell:

docker run -it --entrypoint=/bin/sh cgr.dev/chainguard/gradle:latest-dev

From within the container, run the init task to build a Hello World! example application:

gradle init --type java-application --use-defaults

This example specifies that the init task should build a Java application with the default settings.

. . .

BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 3s

Then, use the run task to run the newly built application:

gradle run

. . .

> Task :app:run
Hello World!

Documentation and Resources

• Gradle User Manual
• Gradle Build Tool GitHub Repository

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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