Chainguard Secure Images

Chainguard provides hardened, minimal container images designed to reduce the attack surface and vulnerabilities in software supply chains. Founded by Dan Lorenc and Matt Moore in 2021, Chainguard has raised over 100 million dollars in funding and has become a leading provider of secure container images. Key features include: minimal images (distroless and minimal base images containing only the application and its direct runtime dependencies, without package managers, shells, or unnecessary utilities), zero or near-zero CVEs (continuously rebuilt and patched images with dramatically fewer known vulnerabilities compared to standard Debian, Ubuntu, or Alpine-based images), daily rebuilds (images are rebuilt daily with the latest security patches and upstream updates), SBOM generation (Software Bill of Materials for every image, listing all packages, libraries, and dependencies with versions and provenance information for supply chain compliance), cryptographic signing (Sigstore-based image signing with keyless cosign signatures and certificate transparency logging), multi-architecture (AMD64, ARM64, and multi-arch manifests for cross-platform deployment), tag-based and digest-based pulls (versioned image tags with immutable digest pinning for reproducible deployments), free public images (Chainguard Images for popular open-source projects including Python, Go, Node.js, Java, Ruby, PHP, and base OS images available freely), Chainguard Enforce (commercial platform for policy-based admission control, vulnerability scanning, and image verification in Kubernetes clusters), policy enforcement (OPA-based policy engine for enforcing image provenance, signature verification, and vulnerability thresholds at admission time), and ecosystem integration (Kubernetes admission controllers, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, containerd, and major cloud providers).