Chainguard Container for weaviate

Minimal container image for running the weaviate vector database.

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/weaviate:latest

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

Usage

This image should be a drop-in replacement for the upstream weaviate image.

Note that this image does not include a config file by default, and one is required to start the server. This can be specified using the --config-file paramter.

% docker run cgr.dev/chainguard/weaviate --help
Usage:
  weaviate [OPTIONS]

Cloud-native, modular vector search engine

Application Options:
      --scheme=            the listeners to enable, this can be repeated and
                           defaults to the schemes in the swagger spec
      --cleanup-timeout=   grace period for which to wait before killing idle
                           connections (default: 10s)
      --graceful-timeout=  grace period for which to wait before shutting down
                           the server (default: 15s)
      --max-header-size=   controls the maximum number of bytes the server will
                           read parsing the request header's keys and values,
                           including the request line. It does not limit the
                           size of the request body. (default: 1MiB)
      --socket-path=       the unix socket to listen on (default:
                           /var/run/weaviate.sock)
      --host=              the IP to listen on (default: localhost) [$HOST]
      --port=              the port to listen on for insecure connections,
                           defaults to a random value [$PORT]
      --listen-limit=      limit the number of outstanding requests
      --keep-alive=        sets the TCP keep-alive timeouts on accepted
                           connections. It prunes dead TCP connections ( e.g.
                           closing laptop mid-download) (default: 3m)
      --read-timeout=      maximum duration before timing out read of the
                           request (default: 30s)
      --write-timeout=     maximum duration before timing out write of the
                           response (default: 60s)
      --tls-host=          the IP to listen on for tls, when not specified it's
                           the same as --host [$TLS_HOST]
      --tls-port=          the port to listen on for secure connections,
                           defaults to a random value [$TLS_PORT]
      --tls-certificate=   the certificate to use for secure connections
                           [$TLS_CERTIFICATE]
      --tls-key=           the private key to use for secure connections
                           [$TLS_PRIVATE_KEY]
      --tls-ca=            the certificate authority file to be used with
                           mutual tls auth [$TLS_CA_CERTIFICATE]
      --tls-listen-limit=  limit the number of outstanding requests
      --tls-keep-alive=    sets the TCP keep-alive timeouts on accepted
                           connections. It prunes dead TCP connections ( e.g.
                           closing laptop mid-download)
      --tls-read-timeout=  maximum duration before timing out read of the
                           request
      --tls-write-timeout= maximum duration before timing out write of the
                           response

Connector config & MQTT config:
      --config-file=       path to config file (default: ./weaviate.conf.json)

Help Options:
  -h, --help               Show this help message

Helm Deployment

This image is a drop-in replacement for the upstream weaviate image, and can be used in the standard Helm charts. To deploy in that helm chart, you can use:

$ helm repo add weaviate https://weaviate.github.io/weaviate-helm
$ helm install my-weaviate weaviate/weaviate \
    --set image.registry=cgr.dev \
    --set image.repo=chainguard/weaviate \
    --set image.tag=latest

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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