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Sign InMinimalist Wolfi-based Valkey image.
Chainguard Images are regularly-updated, minimal container images with low-to-zero CVEs.
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Minimalist Wolfi-based Valkey image.
Valkey is an open source (BSD) high-performance key/value datastore that supports a variety workloads such as caching, message queues, and can act as a primary database. Valkey can run as either a standalone daemon or in a cluster, with options for replication and high availability.
The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs, Bitmaps.
Our latest
tag use the most recent build of the Wolfi Valkey package.
The latest
tagged variant is a distroless image for running Valkey.
This will automatically pull the image to your local system and execute the command valkey --version
:
You should see output similar to this:
The default Valkey port is 6379. To run with Docker using default configuration:
By default this image runs as a non-root user named valkey
with a uid of 65532.
Valkey does not have a default data directory, it defaults to whatever the working directory is for the process.
We provide a default WORKDIR
of /data
that is writeable by the valkey
user.
If you supply a different configuration file or change the user, UID, or WORKDIR
, you'll need to ensure the user running the valkey process has permissions to write to that directory.
When running in Docker using a volume, that should also be taken care of automatically. Here's an example of using a host volume:
If you have a Zendesk account (typically set up for you by your Customer Success Manager) you can reach out to Chainguard's Customer Success team through our Zendesk portal.
Chainguard Images are a collection of container images designed for security and minimalism.
Many Chainguard Images are distroless; they contain only an open-source application and its runtime dependencies. These images do not even contain a shell or package manager. Chainguard Images are built with Wolfi, our Linux undistro designed to produce container images that meet the requirements of a secure software supply chain.
The main features of Chainguard Images include:
-dev
VariantsAs mentioned previously, Chainguard’s distroless Images have no shell or package manager by default. This is great for security, but sometimes you need these things, especially in builder images. For those cases, most (but not all) Chainguard Images come paired with a -dev
variant which does include a shell and package manager.
Although the -dev
image variants have similar security features as their distroless versions, such as complete SBOMs and signatures, they feature additional software that is typically not necessary in production environments. The general recommendation is to use the -dev
variants only to build the application and then copy all application artifacts into a distroless image, which will result in a final container image that has a minimal attack surface and won’t allow package installations or logins.
That being said, it’s worth noting that -dev
variants of Chainguard Images are completely fine to run in production environments. After all, the -dev
variants are still more secure than many popular container images based on fully-featured operating systems such as Debian and Ubuntu since they carry less software, follow a more frequent patch cadence, and offer attestations for what they include.
To better understand how to work with Chainguard Images, we encourage you to visit Chainguard Academy, our documentation and education platform.
Chainguard Images contain software packages that are direct or transitive dependencies. The following licenses were found in the "latest" version of this image:
Apache-2.0
BSD-3-Clause
GCC-exception-3.1
GPL-2.0-only
GPL-2.0-or-later
GPL-3.0-or-later
LGPL-2.1-or-later
For a complete list of licenses, please refer to this Image's SBOM.
Software license agreementA FIPS validated version of this image is available for FedRAMP compliance. STIG is included with FIPS image.