Chainguard Container for rancher

Complete container management platform

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/rancher: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 rancher/rancher image available from Docker Hub. Switching to the Chainguard image should not require any changes to your existing setup.

Getting Started

Docker

You can run the following command to use Chainguard's Rancher image:

docker container run \
  --rm \
  -it \
  --privileged \
  -p 80:80 -p 443:443 \
  -e CATTLE_BOOTSTRAP_PASSWORD='YOUR INITIAL PASSWORD' \
  cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/rancher:latest

If you are deploying Rancher in an airgapped environment, you will also need to use the bundled system chart:

docker container run \
  --rm \
  -it \
  --privileged \
  -p 80:80 -p 443:443 \
  -e CATTLE_SYSTEM_CATALOG=bundled \
  -e CATTLE_BOOTSTRAP_PASSWORD='YOUR INITIAL PASSWORD' \
  cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/rancher:latest

Now, jump to https://localhost:443 in your browser and log in with the username admin and the password you set in the CATTLE_BOOTSTRAP_PASSWORD environment variable. Process the certificate warning in your browser and you should see the Rancher quick start wizard.

Kubernetes

For complete instructions on installing this image with Helm, please refer to the Helm Chart documentation. As a prerequisite, you may need to install cert-manager in your cluster.

The following is an example of how to use the Helm chart, using the Chainguard image.

Start by adding a values.yaml file to configure the Helm chart:

cat <<EOF > values.yaml
image:
  rancherImage: cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/rancher
  rancherImageTag: latest
  rancherImagePullPolicy: Always

hostname: rancher.my.org
bootstrapPassword: 'YOUR INITIAL PASSWORD'
useBundledSystemChart: true # only if deploying Rancher in an airgapped environment
EOF

Add the Helm repository:

helm repo add rancher-stable https://releases.rancher.com/server-charts/stable
helm repo update

Then Install the chart:

helm install rancher rancher \
  --namespace cattle-system \
  --create-namespace \
  --values values.yaml

Documentation and Resources

Please refer the Rancher documentation for information.

You can explore the following resources to learn more about:

• Installing Rancher on a Single Node Using Docker
• Install/Upgrade Rancher on a Kubernetes Cluster
• Setting up Local System Charts for Air Gapped Installations

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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