Chainguard Containers

Your open source foundation for the agentic coding era

Developers and AI agents are pulling open source at a pace that's outrunning reactive security. Chainguard delivers the industry’s largest zero-CVE, built-from-source container image catalog for engineers who refuse to choose between velocity and trust.

The world’s leading companies trust Chainguard

Purpose-built to help your team move faster, ship cleaner, and sleep easier

Unlock velocity with 3,000+ images, 30,000+ packages. Wall-to-wall coverage and deep customization powers human and machine speed.

Save 4 hrs per month per developer on vulnerability management. Comprehensive CVE elimination from the start keeps builders shipping product, not patches.

Silence scanners with 97.6% fewer CVEs than OSS equivalents. Built from source to eliminate entire categories of OS-level risk that downstream approaches can't touch.

Chainguard Starter

Sign up for five free images of your choice on the Chainguard Starter plan

Continuous rebuilds powered by the AI-native Chainguard Factory

Explore container images for over 3,000 projects and hundreds of Helm charts, continuously rebuilt by AI reconciler agents in a SLSA Level 3 environment. No drift. No CVEs. No waiting on upstream vendors.

Intelligent migration through contextual awareness and testing

Deploy Chainguard Guardener to analyze and rebuild Dockerfiles layer by layer, map packages, and test incrementally to seamlessly use production-ready, Chainguard images.

Compliance-ready by default

Simplify compliance across frameworks like FedRAMP, PCI DSS, SOC 2, CMMC, and CRA with zero-CVE images, signed SBOMs, and full provenance built into every artifact. Over 1,200 FIPS-validated container variants and OS-level STIG hardening are available for regulated environments.

Additional Chainguard Container capabilities

Commercial Builds

Extend Chainguard's secure-by-default standard to commercial ISV software.

Custom Assembly

Quickly and easily add packages to Chainguard Containers without spawning additional infrastructure and maintenance sprawl for your engineering team.

Private APK Repositories

Direct access to the APKs underpinning your entitled Chainguard Containers so developers have a trusted source for secure packages.

End of Life Grace Period

Get updated EOL images with low-to-zero CVEs for up to 6 months to smoothly transition off legacy software without compromising security.

CVE Visualizations

Compare image health between Chainguard Containers and OSS alternatives and track the number of CVEs that Chainguard remediated on your behalf over time.

The Chainguard Containers difference

• Proactive malware prevention
• Eliminate vulnerabilities
• Responsibility you can trust
• Expansive catalog
• Expertise and experience

Trust in every phase of the SDLC

Frequently Asked Questions

What does “zero-CVE” mean?

“Zero-CVE” means that there are no known CVEs at publish time. Chainguard’s minimal design and continuous rebuilds keep CVE counts low, and new advisories are remediated under SLA so you roll forward to clean digests.

Are FIPS-validated and STIG-hardened variants available?

FIPS-validated container variants are available and should be used in environments where validated cryptography is required.

How do continuous rebuilds and patch delivery work?

Chainguard Factory tracks upstream changes, triggers clean rebuilds, then publishes new images with updated SBOMs and provenance, and delivers under SLA.