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Chainguard Containers are regularly-updated, secure-by-default container images.
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The Maven Chainguard image was built to work as a drop-in replacement for the official Maven image on Docker Hub. Like most of Chainguard's images, the Maven image does not operate as the root user and includes only the minimum packages needed to function.
Chainguard Maven images come with different versions of OpenJDK. This means you will need to ensure that you choose the correct image tag for your application needs.
To illustrate how you can use Chainguard's Maven image, you will need a Java application for the Maven image to build. This overview will use a Spring Boot example application found in this GitHub repository.
Clone the repository to your local machine and navigate into the project directory:
The example's Dockerfile uses the default Maven image from Docker Hub. Overwrite this file with the following command to instead use the Chainguard Maven Image:
Then build an image using this Dockerfile with the following command:
This command tags the image as maven-app
. Run this image:
The app should now be running and you can interact with it by accessing it at localhost:8080/hello
, either in your browser or with curl
, as in the following example:
This shows that the application is working as expected. You can stop the container by pressing CTRL + C
in the terminal where it's running.
The image built in the previous example still includes build tooling and source code that aren't needed in the production image. Using a multi-stage build can reduce the number of dependencies.
To try this out, create a new Dockerfile named Dockerfile.multi-stage
:
Note that there are two FROM
lines, the first one creates the builder
image much as before and the second (named runner
) copies the built JAR from the builder step into the smaller cgr.dev/chainguard/jre
image. The result is a container image that only contains the JRE and the built application.
Using this multi-stage Dockerfile, build a new image:
This command tags the image as maven-app-multi-stage
. Run this image:
Again, the application will be accessible at localhost:8080/hello:
Once again, press CTRL + C
to stop the running container.
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
Bitstream-Vera
FTL
GCC-exception-3.1
GPL-2.0-only
GPL-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.