CHAINGUARD VMS

Secure,
purpose-built virtual machine images

Deploy containers on hardened, minimal VM images — rebuilt from source daily to ensure zero known CVEs — optimized for ephemeral workloads across cloud and on-premise environments.

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Deploy containers on hardened, minimal VM images — rebuilt from source daily to ensure zero known CVEs — optimized for ephemeral workloads across cloud and on-premise environments.

The world’s leading companies trust Chainguard

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The security and innovation-friendly container host has arrived

Simplify continuous compliance

Meet critical compliance controls by default with zero-CVE Container Hosts, Application, and Base images guarded under a CVE remediation SLA.

Engineering should build, not patch

Focus on differentiated product experiences and reduce the burden on engineering and security teams for CVE triage, management, and remediation.

Innovate without big bang upgrades

Benefit from the latest features, security updates, and performance optimizations from upstream maintainers without costly and complex major upgrades.

Purpose-built, use-case optimized

Purpose-built, use-case optimized

Shrink your attack surface without compromising performance with VMs that include only components required to run your containerized applications and support ephemeral cloud-native workloads.

Continuously rebuilt and updated from source

Continuously rebuilt and updated from source

Benefit from newly available features, software upgrades, and a best-in-class CVE remediation SLA of 7 days for critical and 14 days for high, medium, and low through automated rebuilds.

Standardized for multi-cloud

Standardized for multi-cloud

Build on Chainguard VMs optimized for one-click deployments into the cloud of your choice or on-premise environment, with end-to-end integrity for every software component included in your virtual machines.

Customizable and extensible

Customizable and extensible

Customize Chainguard VMs to meet organization-specific requirements without spawning additional overhead and maintenance requirements.

Why Chainguard?

The Chainguard VMs difference

End-to-end integrity

Know exactly what’s in your open source, with full provenance built in.

Eliminate vulnerabilities

We don’t just identify OSS vulnerabilities for you to manage – we remove them entirely.

Responsibility you can trust

One reliable, secure partner with industry-leading SLAs to take on the burden of a hard, unpredictable problem.

Expertise and experience

The leading open source minds driving the industry forward, delivering new innovations for our users.

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