Chainguard Container for neo4j

Neo4J is a graph database that is commonly used in applications that require complex relationships between data. Neo4j supports both a standalone and a cluster deployment of Neo4j on Kubernetes using the Neo4j Helm charts.

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/neo4j: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 comparable to the image available from the Neo4j project. Switching to the Chainguard image should not require any changes to your existing setup.

Getting Started

Neo4J is a graph database that is commonly used in applications that require complex relationships between data. Neo4j supports both a standalone and a cluster deployment of Neo4j on Kubernetes using the Neo4j Helm charts.

To deploy Neo4j on Kubernetes, you can follow along the official Neo4j Helm chart repository documentation.

Here is the values.yaml file for the Neo4j Helm chart:

neo4j:
  name: neo4j
image:
  customImage: cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/neo4j:latest

Add the Neo4j Helm chart repository:

helm repo add neo4j https://neo4j.github.io/helm-charts

Now, you can install the Neo4j Helm chart:

helm install neo4j neo4j/neo4j -f values.yaml

Following that, use port-forwarding to make the service accessible:

kubectl port-forward svc/neo4j-neo4j 7474:7474 7687:7687

Finally, you can access the Neo4j browser by visiting http://localhost:7474 in your browser.

Documentation and Resources

• Neo4j Documentation
• Neo4j Helm Chart

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

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