Chainguard Container for grafana

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

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/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 values.yaml manifest with the following content:

image:
  repository: cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/grafana
  tag: latest
securityContext:
  # Chainguard's image runs with a UID/GID of 65532 instead of 472
  fsGroup: 65532
  runAsGroup: 65532
  runAsUser: 65532

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/ORGANIZATION/k8s-sidecar
  tag: latest

Refer to the Helm chart documentation for more information.

Documentation and Resources

• Grafana documentation
• Grafana 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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