Chainguard Container for skaffold

Minimal container image for running skaffold apps

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/skaffold:latest

Be sure to replace the ORGANIZATION placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard Registry.

This image includes skaffold, helm, kubectl, kpt, kustomize, and the google-cloud-sdk.

Usage

This image should be a drop-in replacement for the upstream skaffold-slim image. See the full documentation for usage.

% docker run cgr.dev/chainguard/skaffold:latest
A tool that facilitates continuous development for Kubernetes applications.

  Find more information at: https://skaffold.dev/docs/getting-started/

End-to-end Pipelines:
  run               Run a pipeline
  dev               Run a pipeline in development mode
  debug             Run a pipeline in debug mode

Pipeline Building Blocks:
  build             Build the artifacts
  test              Run tests against your built application images
  deploy            Deploy pre-built artifacts
  delete            Delete any resources deployed by Skaffold
  render            Generate rendered Kubernetes manifests
  apply             Apply hydrated manifests to a cluster
  verify            Run verification tests against skaffold deployments

Getting Started With a New Project:
  init              Generate configuration for deploying an application

Other Commands:
  completion        Output shell completion for the given shell (bash, fish or zsh)
  config            Interact with the global Skaffold config file (defaults to `$HOME/.skaffold/config`)
  diagnose          Run a diagnostic on Skaffold
  fix               Update old configuration to a newer schema version
  schema            List JSON schemas used to validate skaffold.yaml configuration
  survey            Opens a web browser to fill out the Skaffold survey
  version           Print the version information

Usage:
  skaffold [flags] [options]

Use "skaffold <command> --help" for more information about a given command.
Use "skaffold options" for a list of global command-line options (applies to all commands).

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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