Make your golden images shine
Whether it’s for security, compliance, or developer velocity and efficiency, standardize your golden images on a secure, scalable foundation with Chainguard.
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A paved, centralized road leading to critical outcomes
Deliver secure software to customer environments Increase dev velocity and efficiency Decrease cost of vulnerability remediation Build on a compliant foundation Rapidly scale developer onboarding
Secure your foundation for open source
72,000+
CVEs eliminated
Achieve and maintain continuous compliance faster
400+
FIPS containers in the catalog
Reduce cost of engineering toil
288,000+
engineering hours saved for customers
Standardization that keeps engineering and security teams happy
Chainguard helps DevOps, Platform, and Security teams drive secure, centralized open source software adoption
Zero-CVE container and VM images
Build on a secure foundation from the start.
Count on an industry-leading remediation SLA of 7 days for critical and 14 days for high, medium, and low CVEs.
Purpose-built and customizable
Meet developer demands without bottlenecking velocity.
Leverage 1,300+ purpose-built images and quickly and easily customize images to meet your use cases.
Rebuilt from source daily
Continuously updated to minimize maintenance costs and resourcing.
Standardize on continuously updated software built from source to avoid ongoing maintenance, patching and backporting.
End-to-end integrity
Count on total transparency in your open source software.
Adopt open source with full build-time generated SBOMs and digitally signed attestations for total transparency.
Fool's gold: the true cost of DIY golden image programs
| Task | Description |
Chainguard Solution |
Per Image DIY Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Image definition | Establishing and defining image policies | Not Calculated | |
| Initial image hardening | Implementing initial image policies, processes, and tooling |
|
$62k |
| Ongoing image hardening maintenance annually | Updating and refining processes, continuously keeping versioning up-to-date |
|
$56k |
| Initial CVE remediation | Mitigating CVE backlog |
|
$74K |
| Ongoing CVE remediation annually | Continuous CVE remediation and maintenance |
|
$91K |
| Total Cost Per Image | $136-283K | ||
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