Chainguard Container for kiali-operator

A Kubernetes Operator that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of Kiali - an observability console for Istio service mesh.

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/kiali-operator:latest

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

Compatibility Notes

This image is compatible with the upstream quay.io/kiali/kiali-operator image. It uses the Ansible Operator SDK to manage Kiali deployments and is designed to be used in Kubernetes environments with Istio service mesh.

Getting Started

The Kiali Operator is typically deployed in Kubernetes environments. You can deploy it using Helm, OperatorHub (via OLM), or as an Istio add-on.

Deploying with Helm

# Add the Kiali Helm repository
helm repo add kiali https://kiali.org/helm-charts

# Install the Kiali Operator
helm install --namespace kiali-operator \
  --create-namespace kiali-operator \
  kiali/kiali-operator \
  --set image.repo=cgr.dev/chainguard \
  --set image.name=kiali-operator

# Deploy Kiali by creating a Kiali CR
kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
apiVersion: kiali.io/v1alpha1
kind: Kiali
metadata:
  name: kiali
  namespace: istio-system
spec:
  deployment:
    image_name: cgr.dev/chainguard/kiali
    image_version: latest
EOF

Environment Variables

The Kiali Operator image respects the following environment variables:

• ANSIBLE_DEBUG: Set to "true" to enable additional debugging output
• ANSIBLE_VERBOSITY: Set the verbosity level (0-4)
• WATCH_NAMESPACE: The namespace to watch for Kiali CRs
• POD_NAMESPACE: The namespace the operator is deployed in
• OPERATOR_NAME: The name of the operator

Documentation and Resources

• Kiali Website
• Kiali Operator GitHub Repository
• Kiali Documentation
• Ansible Operator SDK Documentation

What are Chainguard Containers?

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:

• 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 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.

Need additional packages?

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.

Learn More

Refer to our Chainguard Containers documentation on Chainguard Academy. Chainguard also offers VMs and Libraries — contact us for access.

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