https://deploy-preview-3176--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/chainguard-images/how-to-use/Recent content in How to Use Chainguard Containers onHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USThu, 19 Dec 2024 08:49:15 +0000https://deploy-preview-3176--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/chainguard-images/how-to-use/how-to-use-chainguard-images/Thu, 01 Sep 2022 08:49:31 +0000https://deploy-preview-3176--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/chainguard-images/how-to-use/how-to-use-chainguard-images/Chainguard Containers are minimal container images designed to reduce vulnerabilities and attack surface compared to traditional base images. These images use the apk package format to achieve smaller sizes while maintaining complete provenance information with cryptographic signatures, ensuring both enhanced security and traceability. In this guide, you’ll find general instructions on how to get started using Chainguard Containers and how to migrate existing container-based workflows to use our images. For specific image usage instructions, please refer to our Chainguard Containers Directory, which contains the full list of all images available to the public and their respective documentation.https://deploy-preview-3176--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/chainguard-images/how-to-use/images-directory/Fri, 23 Feb 2024 11:07:52 +0200https://deploy-preview-3176--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/chainguard-images/how-to-use/images-directory/This guide serves as a walkthrough of the Chainguard Console, which is accessible to anyone, but you’ll first need to create an account and log in. If you’re not ready to create a Chainguard account, you can follow along with the public Chainguard Directory which offers similar information, but is only informative as it is not connected to your organization or account. If you use the Sign In link in the directory, it brings you to the console.https://deploy-preview-3176--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/chainguard-images/how-to-use/use-chainguard-notifications/Fri, 11 Jul 2025 08:49:31 +0000https://deploy-preview-3176--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/chainguard-images/how-to-use/use-chainguard-notifications/You can use the Chainguard Console to configure how Chainguard is permitted to send notifications about things like breaking changes to users in your organization. The feature includes options to allow notifications to be sent in-app to the Activity Center on the user’s Overview page in the Chainguard Console, via Slack, and for customers who are opted in, via email. These notifications are different from Chainguard Events as Chainguard Notifications are sent by Chainguard’s customer success representatives.https://deploy-preview-3176--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/chainguard-images/how-to-use/chainguard-directory/Fri, 23 Feb 2024 11:07:52 +0200https://deploy-preview-3176--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/chainguard-images/how-to-use/chainguard-directory/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.https://deploy-preview-3176--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/chainguard-images/how-to-use/use-chainguard-helm-charts/Fri, 11 Jul 2025 08:49:31 +0000https://deploy-preview-3176--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/chainguard-images/how-to-use/use-chainguard-helm-charts/Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes that simplifies the installation and management of applications by automating the creation of Kubernetes resources. Helm charts are reusable, versioned packages that define a collection of Kubernetes resources required to run an application or service. You use Helm to define, install, and perform upgrades to your applications on Kubernetes. For organizations looking to deploy their Chainguard container images with Helm, Chainguard provides upstream-produced Helm charts.https://deploy-preview-3176--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/chainguard-images/how-to-use/use-chainguard-iamguarded-helm-charts/Fri, 11 Jul 2025 08:49:31 +0000https://deploy-preview-3176--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/chainguard-images/how-to-use/use-chainguard-iamguarded-helm-charts/Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes that simplifies the installation and management of applications by automating the creation of Kubernetes resources. Helm charts are reusable, versioned packages that define a collection of Kubernetes resources required to run an application or service. You use Helm to define, install, and perform upgrades to your applications on Kubernetes. Chainguard offers this limited iamguarded set of Helm charts to go with a set of Chainguard-created containers labeled as iamguarded, designed specifically to support organizations migrating off of Bitnami.https://deploy-preview-3176--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/chainguard-images/how-to-use/proxy-and-cache/Mon, 14 Jul 2025 08:10:31 +0000https://deploy-preview-3176--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/chainguard-images/how-to-use/proxy-and-cache/This page shows you how to set up and use Chainguard Helm Charts with Artifactory via remote Helm OCI repositories. Create and configure Helm OCI repository in Artifactory From the administration panel within Artifactory, create a remote repository, picking Helm as the repo type. we’ll call it iamguarded-charts To determine values for the User Name and Password / Access Token fields, run the following command: $ORGANIZATION=YOUR-ORGANIZATION chainctl auth configure-docker --pull-token --save --parent $ORGANIZATIONSet $ORGANIZATION to be the organization name you’re pulling Helm Charts from.https://deploy-preview-3176--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/chainguard-images/how-to-use/use-with-openshift/Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:49:31 +0000https://deploy-preview-3176--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/chainguard-images/how-to-use/use-with-openshift/Chainguard Containers are fully compatible with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, providing enhanced security while requiring some configuration adjustments for OpenShift’s security context constraints. This guide explains how to successfully deploy Chainguard’s minimal, security-hardened container images in OpenShift environments. Red Hat OpenShift is an application platform that orchestrates and manages your systems and resources. While it is based on open source software like Kubernetes, OpenShift includes a suite of applications with additional functionality that are configured to work together.https://deploy-preview-3176--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/chainguard-images/how-to-use/retrieve-image-sboms/Fri, 17 Nov 2023 11:07:52 +0200https://deploy-preview-3176--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/chainguard-images/how-to-use/retrieve-image-sboms/Chainguard provides a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) with every container image, enabling complete transparency about package contents and dependencies for security and compliance requirements. These SBOMs are cryptographically signed and attached as attestations, making them retrievable and verifiable. By including only the minimum packages needed, Chainguard Containers reduce attack surface while the SBOM ensures you can verify exactly what’s in each image. Even though they contain the minimum number of packages, there may come a time when you want to know exactly what’s running inside of a certain Chainguard Container.https://deploy-preview-3176--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/chainguard-images/how-to-use/verifying-chainguard-images-and-metadata-signatures-with-cosign/Mon, 18 Mar 2024 08:59:52 -0700https://deploy-preview-3176--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/chainguard-images/how-to-use/verifying-chainguard-images-and-metadata-signatures-with-cosign/Chainguard signs all container images and their attestations (including SBOMs) to ensure supply chain security and enable verification of image authenticity. These cryptographic signatures allow you to confirm that images come from Chainguard and haven’t been tampered with, while attestations provide detailed information about image contents and build provenance. This guide outlines how you can use Cosign to download and verify container image signatures and attestations. Prerequisites The following examples require Cosign and jq to be installed on your machine in order to download and verify image attestations.