Chainguard Containers

Chainguard Containers concepts

Conceptual articles and resources on Chainguard Containers

Why Chainguard Containers ship without a shell or a package manager, and what that changes about how you build

More on how Chainguard Containers work

Product release lifecycle

How versions are released, supported, and retired

Which C library a container uses, and when it matters

Container variants

How the development and production variants differ

What Chainguard checks before a container is published

Choosing a base container

Picking a base for a compiled program

Container categories

How the catalog is organized and what each category means

Shared responsibility model

What Chainguard secures, and what stays yours

Recent Tutorials

Can anybody build Chainguard Containers themselves?

Chainguard end-of-life grace period for containers

Understanding Chainguard's container image categories

Chainguard criteria for determining whether to build a container image

How end-of-life software accumulates vulnerabilities

Chainguard's container variants

Featured Tutorials

Chainguard criteria for determining whether to build a container image

Chainguard shared responsibility model

Chainguard Containers product release lifecycle

Chainguard end-of-life grace period for containers

Understanding Chainguard's container image categories

How Chainguard Containers are tested