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Sign UpVault Secrets Operator (VSO) allows Pods to consume Vault secrets natively from Kubernetes Secrets.
Chainguard Images are regularly-updated, minimal container images with low-to-zero CVEs.
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Chainguard's Vault Secrets Operator image contains the vault-secrets-operator binary. The image is intended to be a drop-in replacement for the hashicorp/vault-secrets-operator image.
This image is not identical to the hashicorp/vault-secrets-operator
image. In particular:
vault-secrets-operator
binary is stored in /usr/bin
, with symlink to the binary placed in /
for compatibilityChainguard's Vault Secrets Operator image is not meant to be run as standalone and has to be run inside a Kubernetes cluster.
The Chainguard Vault Secrets Operator image is meant to be used with the hashicorp/vault-secrets-operator Helm chart, and in conjunction with the Hashicorp Vault deployment.
To use the Chainguard image, configure the hashicorp/vault-secrets-operator Helm chart to the specify the image in a values.yaml
file:
The Vault Secrets Operator Installation documentation provides step-by-step instructions for installing the Vault Secrets Operator and configuring Vault to allow Kubernetes-based authentication.
hashicorp/vault-secrets-operator
GitHub RepositoryIf 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:
BUSL-1.1
CC-PDDC
LGPL-2.1-or-later
MIT
MPL-2.0
For a complete list of licenses, please refer to this Image's SBOM.
Software license agreement