Chainguard Image for grafana

A minimal wolfi-based image for grafana, which is an open-source monitoring and observability application

Chainguard Images are regularly-updated, minimal container images with low-to-zero CVEs.

Download this Image

This image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/grafana: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 Image for Grafana is meant to serve as a drop-in replacement for the official Grafana image from Docker Hub. Like most other Chainguard Images, this image has few-to-zero CVEs and does not run as the root user.

Getting Started

The Chainguard Image for Grafana can be deployed using Docker or Helm.

Using Docker to Deploy

Refer to the Grafana Docker image documentation for full instructions on how to launch Grafana using Docker.

Example:

docker run --name=local-grafana -p 3000:3000 cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/grafana:latest

The Grafana Web UI will then be accessible at http://localhost:3000.

Using Helm to Deploy

Grafana can be deployed using this Helm chart.

Be aware that when using this Helm chart, you will need to override the default image and tag used by replacing it with the Chainguard image, as in this example:

helm repo add grafana https://grafana.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update

Then, create a YAML values file with the following command:

cat > values.yaml <<EOF
image:
  repository: cgr.dev/chainguard/grafana
  tag: latest

EOF

If you want to leverage the Chainguard Image for sidecar images you are using, add these lines to values.yaml:

image:
  registry: cgr.dev
  repository: cgr.dev/chainguard/k8s-sidecar
  tag: latest

Refer to the Helm chart documentation for more information.

Documentation and Resources

• Grafana documentation
• Grafana GitHub repository

Contact Support

If you have a Zendesk account (typically set up for you by your Customer Success Manager) you can reach out to Chainguard's Customer Success team through our Zendesk portal.

What are Chainguard Images?

Chainguard Images are a collection of container images designed for security and minimalism.

Many Chainguard Images are distroless; they contain only an open-source application and its runtime dependencies. These images do not even contain a shell or package manager. Chainguard Images are built with Wolfi, our Linux undistro designed to produce container images that meet the requirements of a secure software supply chain.

The main features of Chainguard Images include:

• Minimal design, with no unnecessary software bloat
• Automated nightly builds to ensure Images are completely up-to-date and contain all available security patches
• High quality build-time SBOMs (software bills of materials) attesting the provenance of all artifacts within the Image
• Verifiable signatures provided by Sigstore
• Reproducible builds with Cosign and apko (read more about reproducibility)

-dev Variants

As mentioned previously, Chainguard’s distroless Images have no shell or package manager by default. This is great for security, but sometimes you need these things, especially in builder images. For those cases, most (but not all) Chainguard Images come paired with a -dev variant which does include a shell and package manager.

Although the -dev image variants have similar security features as their distroless versions, such as complete SBOMs and signatures, they feature additional software that is typically not necessary in production environments. The general recommendation is to use the -dev variants only to build the application and then copy all application artifacts into a distroless image, which will result in a final container image that has a minimal attack surface and won’t allow package installations or logins.

That being said, it’s worth noting that -dev variants of Chainguard Images are completely fine to run in production environments. After all, the -dev variants are still more secure than many popular container images based on fully-featured operating systems such as Debian and Ubuntu since they carry less software, follow a more frequent patch cadence, and offer attestations for what they include.

Learn More

To better understand how to work with Chainguard Images, we encourage you to visit Chainguard Academy, our documentation and education platform.