Chainguard
Distroless, minimal container images with zero CVEs at release and daily rebuilds from source.
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Chainguard Overview
Chainguard Containers is a catalog of 1,700+ minimal, distroless container images that eliminate software supply chain vulnerabilities through continuous source rebuilds and zero-CVE architecture. Unlike traditional container registries that aggregate community images, Chainguard builds every image from source using its proprietary Chainguard OS (based on Wolfi undistro), achieving an average 97.6% reduction in Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) compared to standard open source equivalents while maintaining production-ready performance.
The platform rebuilds all container images nightly from verified source code with industry-leading remediation Service Level Agreements (SLAs): 7 days for critical CVEs, 14 days for high/medium/low severity vulnerabilities. Each image is cryptographically signed with Sigstore, includes high-quality Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), and maintains Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) Level 2 compliance, with automated Chainguard Factory managing the entire build, test, patch, and release pipeline on Kubernetes infrastructure.
Founded in 2021 by former Google and VMware engineers and headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, Chainguard has raised $612M in total funding with a $3.5B valuation as of April 2025 and serves over 150 enterprise customers. The company holds SOC 2 Type II certification and supports compliance frameworks including FedRAMP, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and NIST 800-171, with integrations spanning leading vulnerability scanners and artifact management platforms.
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Applies CIS Docker Benchmark and CIS Kubernetes Worker Node Benchmark controls to base images, removing unnecessary packages, setting secure defaults, and configuring file permissions.
Monitors managed SBOMs against the NVD, OSV, and vendor advisories, alerting when newly published CVEs match components in any tracked SBOM.
Provides distroless image variants that contain only the language runtime and application binary, no shell, no package manager, no /tmp. Eliminates entire classes of post-exploitation tooling.
Uses FIPS 140-2 or 140-3 validated cryptographic libraries in all TLS and crypto operations, required for FedRAMP, DoD, and other federal workloads.
Signs image manifests with Sigstore/Cosign or Notary v2, enabling downstream consumers to verify image integrity and provenance before deployment.
Builds images with only the application runtime and required dependencies, eliminating shells, package managers, and debugging tools that expand the attack surface.
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