Chainguard Container for nfpm

nFPM is Not FPM - a simple deb, rpm, apk, ipk, and arch linux packager written in Go

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/nfpm: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 nfpm container image is a drop-in replacement for the upstream nFPM image. It provides the same functionality and configuration options as the upstream image, with improved security and minimal CVEs.

Getting Started

nFPM (Not FPM) is a simple and fast packager for creating .deb, .rpm, .apk, and .archlinux packages without external dependencies.

To get started with the nfpm Chainguard Container, you can initialize a new nFPM configuration file:

docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/work -w /work cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/nfpm:latest init

This will create an nfpm.yaml configuration file in your current directory. Edit this file to specify your package details, then build your package:

# Build a Debian package
docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/work -w /work cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/nfpm:latest pkg --packager deb --target my-package.deb

# Build an RPM package
docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/work -w /work cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/nfpm:latest pkg --packager rpm --target my-package.rpm

# Build an APK package
docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/work -w /work cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/nfpm:latest pkg --packager apk --target my-package.apk

You can also generate shell completion scripts:

# Generate bash completion
docker run --rm cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/nfpm:latest completion bash > nfpm-completion.bash

# Generate zsh completion
docker run --rm cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/nfpm:latest completion zsh > _nfpm

# Generate fish completion
docker run --rm cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/nfpm:latest completion fish > nfpm.fish

Documentation and Resources

• nFPM Documentation
• nFPM GitHub Repository
• Configuration Reference

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.

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