Chainguard Container for redpanda

Redpanda is a Kafka-compatible streaming data platform with no JVM dependencies.

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/redpanda: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 designed to provide a secure and minimal environment for running redpanda. The image is built on Wolfi, providing regular security updates and a minimal attack surface. Chainguard's redpanda image maintains functional parity with the upstream image.

Getting Started

Docker

Simply run the image with the following command:

docker container run --pull always --rm cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/redpanda:latest

This deploys a single node redpanda cluster that can be mapped to a port to interact with the new cluster either using the API or the CLI tool rpk

Kubernetes

To deploy Redpanda on Kubernetes, you can use the Helm chart provided by Redpanda-data. To setup both monitoring and TLS certificate management, the prometheus-operator and cert-manager helm charts are also needed. Add Helm repository:

helm repo add redpanda https://charts.redpanda.com
helm repo add jetstack https://charts.jetstack.io
helm repo add prometheus https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update

Override the default image repository and tag in the values.yaml file:

cat <<EOF > values.yaml
image:
  repository: cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/redpanda
  tag: latest
EOF

Then, install the charts with the following command:

helm install prometheus kube-prometheus-stack --wait
helm install cert-manager cert-manager --wait
helm install redpanda redpanda/redapanda -f values.yaml --wait

Documentation and Resources

• Redpanda Helm Chart
• Redpanda documentation
• Redpanda GitHub

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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