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Overview of Chainguard Containers

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Chainguard Containers are container images designed for enhanced security through minimalism and supply chain integrity. These images follow a distroless philosophy, containing only the application and its essential runtime dependencies, without shells, package managers, or other common utilities that can increase attack surface.

Many Chainguard Containers implement a distroless approach, which means they exclude shells, package managers, and other utilities typically found in container images. This design significantly reduces potential security vulnerabilities. For development and debugging purposes, Chainguard provides -dev variants that include necessary tools while maintaining security best practices. All images are built using Chainguard OS, an operating system specifically designed to meet secure software supply chain requirements.

Quickstart for Chainguard Containers

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This quickstart covers one full cycle of working with a Chainguard Container: pull an image from Chainguard’s registry, run your own code on it, and verify where it came from. The example uses the Node container, but the same workflow applies to every image in the Chainguard Containers Directory.

These steps link to reference documentation instead of explaining each concept in place. Follow the links whenever you want additional details and context.

Chainguard registry and access

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Getting started with Chainguard Containers

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Using and deploying Chainguard Containers

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Building and modifying Chainguard Containers

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Custom Assembly

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Troubleshooting Chainguard Containers

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Chainguard Containers concepts

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Chainguard Containers reference

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Chainguard Containers FAQs

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Learn answers to your questions about Chainguard Containers. Chainguard provides container images designed with security as the primary focus, featuring zero known CVEs, minimal attack surface, and built-in SBOMs for every image.

Which Linux distribution is used as base for Chainguard Containers?

Chainguard Containers are based on Wolfi, a Linux undistro we built specifically to address software supply chain security issues. We call it an undistro because it doesn’t contain certain software you’d normally find in a traditional Linux distribution such as Debian or Alpine. Wolfi is a minimal Linux distribution designed specifically to be used as a base for stripped-down container images.

Security and compliance

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Migrating to Chainguard Containers

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