CONTAINER IMAGE SECURITY

Secure-by-default container images

Build software better with minimal, zero-CVE container images guarded under our industry-leading remediation SLA.

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CHAINGUARD CONTAINERS

Secure container images for modern applications

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Reduce costly engineering toil

Adopt inherently secure software so engineers can spend more time shipping products and less time patching CVEs.

4 hrs/month per developer saved on vulnerability management.
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Secure your open source foundation

Rely on trusted open source to improve your security posture and reduce the attack surface for bad actors.

97.6% reduction in CVEs compared to OSS equivalents
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Simplify continuous compliance

Solve critical compliance controls by default to reduce overhead costs and get products to market faster.

400+ FIPS Images with OS-level STIG hardening.
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Best-in-class CVE remediation SLA

Count on an industry-leading remediation SLA of 7 days for critical CVEs and 14 days for high, medium, and low.

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Secure-by-default, transparent by design

Adopt trusted, zero-CVE container images with full build-time generated SBOMs and digitally signed attestations for total transparency.

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FIPS and STIGs to simplify continuous compliance

Maintain compliance for critical frameworks like FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, and SOC 2 with hardened images that come with kernel-independent FIPS validation and OS-Level STIGs by default.

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1,300+ purpose-built images that are always up to date

Choose from our growing catalog of minimal container images rebuilt from source daily with “nano-updates,” eliminating major OS version upgrades.

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Additional Chainguard Container capabilities

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Custom Assembly

Quickly and easily add packages to Chainguard Containers without spawning additional infrastructure and maintenance sprawl for your engineering team.

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End of Life Grace Period

Get updated EOL images with low-to-zero CVEs for up to 6 months to smoothly transition off legacy software without compromising security.

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CVE Visualizations

Compare image health between Chainguard Containers and OSS alternatives and track the number of CVEs that Chainguard remediated on your behalf over time.

WHY CHAINGUARD?

The Chainguard Containers difference

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End-to-End Integrity

Know exactly what’s in your open source with full provenance and open attestations.

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Eliminate Vulnerabilities

We don’t just identify OSS vulnerabilities for you to manage – we remove them entirely.

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Responsibility You Can Trust

One reliable, secure partner with industry-leading SLAs to take on the burden of a hard, unpredictable problem.

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Expansive Catalog

1,200+ images, with all underlying dependencies rebuilt daily, rapidly growing to meet customer needs.

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Expertise and Experience

The leading open source minds driving the industry forward, delivering new innovations for our users.

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    Chainguard Libraries

    A guarded catalog of language libraries that protect against supply chain attacks.

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    Chainguard VMs

    Know exactly what’s in your open source, with full provenance built in.

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Chainguard Containers are a great way to consume third party applications like MySQL, NGINX, ArgoCD, and others while reducing size and CVEs.

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How CVEs slow down developer productivity

Tired of wasting time on CVEs? Learn how to streamline container security, boost developer productivity, and reduce risk. Data-backed insights inside.

FIPS-ing the Un-FIPS-able: Apache Cassandra

Chainguard was able to create FIPS container images for Apache Cassandra 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0. See how we did it.

Disrupting the Status (Distro)Quo

The traditional "distro" model of open source software delivery is ready for innovation. Learn how we got to this point and what comes next.

Kernel-Independent FIPS Images

Chainguard's FIPS Images are available for deployment on any Linux kernel, thanks to some new innovation by our engineering team. Learn what this means.

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