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Chainguard Images are a collection of minimal, hardened container images that are patched and rebuilt daily, and come with low-to-zero known CVEs, SLSA 2 compliance, signatures, and SBOMs.
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Chainguard Images are a collection of minimal, hardened container images. They only contain what is required to build or run your application, delivering on average a 97.6% reduction in CVEs. Each Chainguard Image is patched and rebuilt daily from source with the latest security fixes and CVE remediations, resulting in low-to-zero known CVEs, verifiable image signatures and attestations, high-quality SBOMs, and SLSA Level 2 - Build compliance.
The Chainguard Images inventory contains images for the most popular base images, including Go, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node, and more; and a selection of common developer tools, applications, data products, and servers.
Chainguard Production Images are available for FIPS compliance, major and minor versions, enterprise SLAs, and customer support. Chainguard offers custom pricing through AWS Marketplace Private Offers.
Chainguard provides custom pricing for customers via Private Offer. Please contact AWS-marketplace@chainguard.dev for more information on our pricing model. Pricing displayed is per Image.
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- Low-to-zero known CVEs with daily patches and rebuilds
- Full SLSA Build Level 2 provenance, signatures, and SBOMs
- Images with FIPS validation available upon request
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Customer reviews
Computer Software
Seamless Chainguard FIPs Compliance with Consistent JFrog Artifactory Pulls
Reviewed on Jul 02, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
We use the Chainguard FIPs containers for compliance with some of our government customers. It is relatively seamless to plug-and-play our applications into the Chainguard FIPs image and have it just work. We integrate the Chainguard repo into our Jfrog artifactory and that makes the docker image pull process pretty consistent across the other processes at our company.
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing structure is a bit harsh. The cost-per image is pretty significant and we've made some engineering mistakes where we purchased an image, realized we didn't actually need it, and just wasted a bunch of money on nothing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Chainguard is helping us accelerate both the migration of our existing commercial products and the development of new products for our government customers who require FIPs encryption.
Without Chainguard, we would have had to spend many more engineering hours addressing security vulnerabilities and enabling FIPs mode in our containers and Python applications.
Without Chainguard, we would have had to spend many more engineering hours addressing security vulnerabilities and enabling FIPs mode in our containers and Python applications.
Computer Software
Lean, mostly CVE-free base images with wide flexibility and FIPS compliance
Reviewed on Jun 29, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Their base image support is notable: the images are lean and mostly free from CVEs. They also provide a high range of possibilities and FIPS compliance.
What do you dislike about the product?
Their UI for reviewing CVE patches feels overwhelming and makes it difficult to locate results for specific packages. The CLI's login flow also lacks clear documentation. Finally, they now rely more on upstream patches for CVE fixes than they did previously, which may be a consequence of the wider range of technologies they support.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As many of our customers scan our products for CVEs and we have a docker based product it is essential that we have near zero CVEs in our base images, which provides a significant ROI even though the somewhat high licensing price.
Nathan P.
CVE Management and Remediation: A return to sanity
Reviewed on Jun 26, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
At first, I assumed it would be more like, “oh, they’ll make my life easier with CVEs.” But after using the service, I’ve found the real strength is the ability to build custom images that include the packages and libraries you actually need. In a lot of architectures you end up with plenty of one-off images, and with Chainguard you can replace those with their CVE-hardened versions.
What do you dislike about the product?
This isn’t a complaint, and I know it’s already on their roadmap, but I’d really like to see STIG and FIPS VMs offered in addition to their container images. That would help a lot with on-prem infrastructure, especially if I could swap out all the OSs on my bare-metal servers and OpenStack VMs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Time.
The open source images, as well as the base images we use for our own applications, create a large attack surface. We can remediate issues ourselves by swapping libraries, patching images, or forking upstream, but it turns into a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. Chainguard changes that by letting me continuously update and address CVEs across all of our images, in seconds rather than hours.
Also the price point for their product catalog is more than worth it if you consider the worth of several engineers consistently focusing (and repeating) on CVE tasks.
The open source images, as well as the base images we use for our own applications, create a large attack surface. We can remediate issues ourselves by swapping libraries, patching images, or forking upstream, but it turns into a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. Chainguard changes that by letting me continuously update and address CVEs across all of our images, in seconds rather than hours.
Also the price point for their product catalog is more than worth it if you consider the worth of several engineers consistently focusing (and repeating) on CVE tasks.
Stacey Z.
Trusted Partner for Secure Container Infrastructure
Reviewed on Jun 26, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Chainguard's security-first approach, combined with the expertise of their engineering team, has been the most valuable aspect of our partnership. Their minimal, hardened container images and FIPS-compliant libraries have helped simplify our FedRAMP readiness efforts while reducing software supply chain risk. We also appreciate their responsiveness, technical knowledge, and willingness to work collaboratively to resolve implementation challenges and support our engineering teams.
What do you dislike about the product?
We have no significant concerns at this time and have been pleased with our overall experience working with Chainguard.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Chainguard is helping us strengthen our software supply chain security while accelerating our FedRAMP readiness. Their hardened container images and FIPS-compliant cryptographic libraries reduce the effort required to build and maintain secure container images, simplify compliance with federal security requirements, and help minimize vulnerabilities in our software stack. This allows our engineering teams to focus on delivering product capabilities while improving the security and integrity of our containerized workloads.
Aviation & Aerospace
Secure, Hardened Chainguard Images That Save DevSecOps Time
Reviewed on Jun 25, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
As a DevSecOps engineer, the best part of Chainguard is being able to get secure, hardened container images off the shelf. Before Chainguard, I had to maintain my own images and write custom scripts to remove certain binaries, or build my own images from scratch to reduce vulnerabilities. That created a lot of toil, especially when it came to keeping everything up to date. Now I can start from images that are already designed with security in mind, which cuts down on vulnerability noise and saves me time. I don’t use the UI much, so for me the main value is the core functionality: reliable, low-vulnerability images that make secure container workflows much easier to maintain.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some images that are directly derived from other sources, like Bitnami, end up with entrypoints that differ from the originals. On top of that, some Helm charts don’t provide a way to customize the container’s ENTRYPOINT or CMD. In certain cases, this leaves me having to maintain my own image (using Chainguard’s image as a base) solely to adjust the ENTRYPOINT.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This is kind of obvious question - it helps me maintain secure environment. It is also extremely helpful in case of certifications like SOC2 or deployments to restricted environments.