Chainguard Containers

Chainguard Containers concepts

Conceptual articles and resources on Chainguard Containers

Why Chainguard's container images ship without a shell or a package manager, and what that changes about how you build

More on how Chainguard's container images 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

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

Chainguard shared responsibility model

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 tests its container images