New Chainguard Images October 2024: Swift, Dart, and more

Last week, we announced that we’ve built over 1,000 Chainguard Images! This is an insane accomplishment, and we’re proud of the hard work our team has put in to deliver secure container images for all sorts of open source applications. October was an especially big month for us, with 126 brand new, CVE-free images being built!

You can check out these images (and try some out) in our Directory. However, updates to the Developer tier are coming. Please see this notice from our support team for more information.

As usual, there are several new FIPS-enabled images. You’ll also notice base images for popular languages like Swift and Dart. For images with both FIPS and non-FIPS variations, we included only FIPS in the list below. However, you can access the non-FIPS versions in our Directory as well.

If you see an image in this list that you would like to run in your organization’s environment, please reach out. We’d love to help make your CVE-free dreams reality.

October’s complete Chainguard Image batch

Featured Chainguard Images

What a busy month! We’re stoked for the 20+ new images we built for Jaeger. Swift is a high-performance system programming language, with great specific use cases when running on Apple platforms like iOS. Dart is a client-optimized language that is perfect for multi-platform development. And of course, we’re thrilled to introduce a suite of images for Linkerd, a service-mesh built on Rust.

Jaeger

• Overview: Jaeger is a distributed tracing platform that allows users to monitor and troubleshoot distributed workflows, identify performance bottlenecks, track down the causes of issues, and more.

• What’s New: Chainguard has built a series of Jaeger container images with various functionalities, all tied together by a Jaeger All in One image that bundles the Jaeger UI, collector, query, and agent with an in memory storage component. Each individual image is also FIPS-enabled.

• Use Cases: Ideal for organizations seeking distributed transaction monitoring or more detailed tracking of data flow for microservice-based distribution systems.

Swift

• Overview: Swift is a high-performance system programming language. It has a clean and modern syntax, offering seamless access to existing C and Objective-C code and frameworks, and is memory-safe by default.

• What’s New: Chainguard’s brand new Swift base image (finished on Halloween!) can be used for compiling swift binaries. It can also be used for exploring swift capabilities using swift repl.

• Use Cases: Swift is a general purpose-language, and can be used for things like systems programming, mobile and desktop apps, or cloud services.

Dart

• Overview: Dart is a client-optimized language for developing fast apps on any platform. It is a productive language for multi-platform development, paired with a flexible execution runtime platform for app frameworks.

• What’s New: There are two new Chainguard Images for Dart – the base Dart image, and a Dart runtime variant.

• Use Cases: Dart is also a general purpose language, but it is ideal for user interface (UI) development.

Linkerd

• Overview: Linkerd is a service mesh for Kubernetes that is designed to make running services easier by offering runtime debugging, observability, reliability, and security—all without requiring any changes to the code.

• What’s New: Chainguard’s Linkerd suite includes a variety of different functionalities, including a controller, proxy, metrics API, and more.

• Use Cases: Ideal for organizations looking to add reliability, security, and observability to cloud native applications and environments.

Chainguard Images: Don’t Shift Left, Start Left

Chainguard Images come out of the box with no CVEs, and stay that way. These images are production-ready and come with the best support in the business to make sure your implementation is successful.

Curious how we’ve helped others achieve vulnerability management goals? Hear from Chainguard customer GitGuardian:

Dive into our Images Directory and contact us if something catches your eye. We’re excited to help you drop the CVE number down at your organization!