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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 Containers are minimal container images that are secure by default.

In many cases, the Chainguard Containers tagged as :latest contain only an open-source application and its runtime dependencies. These minimal container images typically do not contain a shell or package manager. Chainguard Containers are built with Wolfi, our Linux undistro designed to produce container images that meet the requirements of a more secure software supply chain.

The main features of Chainguard Containers include:

For cases where you need container images with shells and package managers to build or debug, most Chainguard Containers come paired with a -dev variant.

Although the -dev container image variants have similar security features as their more minimal versions, they feature additional software that is typically not necessary in production environments. We recommend using multi-stage builds to leverage the -dev variants, copying application artifacts into a final minimal container that offers a reduced attack surface that won’t allow package installations or logins.

Learn More

To better understand how to work with Chainguard Containers, please visit Chainguard Academy and Chainguard Courses.

In addition to Containers, Chainguard offers VMs and Libraries. Contact Chainguard to access additional products.

Trademarks

This software listing is packaged by Chainguard. The trademarks set forth in this offering are owned by their respective companies, and use of them does not imply any affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement by such companies.

Licenses

Chainguard container images contain software packages that are direct or transitive dependencies. The following licenses were found in the "latest" tag of this image:

  • Apache-2.0

  • BSD-3-Clause

  • GCC-exception-3.1

  • GPL-3.0-or-later

  • LGPL-2.1-or-later

  • MIT

  • MPL-2.0

For a complete list of licenses, please refer to this Image's SBOM.

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