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Registry overview

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Chainguard Registry hosts more secure container images with two access tiers: public Free images available to everyone, and production images that require authentication for enterprise features like SLAs and version pinning. The registry integrates with standard container tools while providing enhanced security through signed images and comprehensive metadata.

While all public Chainguard Containers are freely available, logging in with a Chainguard account and authenticating when pulling from the registry provides a mechanism for Chainguard to contact you if there are any current or known upcoming issues with images you are pulling.

Authenticate to Chainguard's Registry

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Public container images

Chainguard offers a collection of images that are publicly available, don’t require authentication, and are free to use by anyone. However, logging in with a Chainguard account and authenticating when pulling from the registry gives you access to the Chainguard Console, and provides a mechanism for Chainguard to contact you if there are any issues with images you are pulling. This may enable Chainguard to notify you of upcoming deprecations, changes in behavior, critical vulnerabilities and remediations for images you have recently pulled.

Chainguard Containers network requirements

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This document provides an overview of network requirements for using Chainguard Containers. To use Chainguard tools and Containers in environments with firewalls, VPNs, and IDS/IPS systems, you will need to add some rules to allow traffic into and out of your networks.

Chainguard Containers do not call Chainguard services while running, so no network changes would be required to the runtime environment. Review the Notes column for more info on each Hostname.

Using the Chainguard Directory

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There are hundreds of Chainguard Containers available for use. To help users explore and better understand all of these container images, we’ve developed the Chainguard Directory. This is a free to access web portal that does not require signing in from which you can view information about container images in the Chainguard catalog. This is great for quick searches or while exploring Chainguard’s offerings.

If you want more specific information about what is available to your organization, take a look at the Chainguard Console. You’ll first need to create an account and log in but there you can interact in a clearer, organization-specific way. If you use the Sign In link in the directory, it brings you to the console. Learn more about the Chainguard Console in the related docs page.

Pull-through guides

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Documentation and resources explaining how to set-up various third-party registries as pull-through caches or mirrors of Chainguard’s registry.