rancher-fleet-fips-agent

packaged by Chainguard

Chainguard Container for rancher-fleet-fips

Deploy workloads from Git to large fleets of Kubernetes clusters

Chainguard Containers are regularly-updated, secure-by-default container images.

Download this Container Image

For those with access, this container image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/rancher-fleet-fips:latest

Be sure to replace the ORGANIZATION placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard Registry.

Compatibility Notes

Rancher Fleet is compatible with Kubernetes and Rancher, and utilizes GitOps workflows with Git repositories. It is optimized for containerized environments and does not run as the root user.

FIPS Support

The rancher-fleet-fips Chainguard Image ships with a validated redistribution of the OpenSSL's FIPS provider module. For more on FIPS support in Chainguard Images, consult the guide on FIPS-enabled Chainguard Images on Chainguard Academy.

Getting Started

Add the Rancher Helm charts Repository:

helm repo add rancher https://charts.rancher.io
helm repo update

To install the Helm chart for Rancher Fleet, first create a values.yaml file with the following contents:

agentImage:
  repository: cgr.dev/chainguard/rancher-fleet-fips-agent
  tag: latest

Then run the following commands:

helm -n cattle-fleet-system install --create-namespace --wait fleet-crd \
    rancher/fleet-crd
helm -n cattle-fleet-system install --create-namespace --wait fleet \
    rancher/fleet \
    -f values.yaml

Following that, you can confirm that the Helm chart was installed successfully:

kubectl get pods -n cattle-fleet-system

NAME                               READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
fleet-agent-0                       2/2     Running   0          86s
fleet-controller-57689f8757-8d4cn   3/3     Running   0          102s
gitjob-59d66b6b8-jv2f8             1/1     Running   0          102s

You should now have Rancher Fleet with the Chainguard FIPS-compliant Rancher Fleet Agent running in your cluster.

Documentation and Resources

• Rancher Fleet Official Documentation
• Rancher Fleet Quick Start Guide
• Fleet Helm Chart Repository

What are Chainguard Containers?

Chainguard Containers are minimal container images that are secure by default.

In many cases, the Chainguard Containers tagged as :latest contain only an open-source application and its runtime dependencies. These minimal container images typically do not contain a shell or package manager. Chainguard Containers are built with Wolfi, our Linux undistro designed to produce container images that meet the requirements of a more secure software supply chain.

The main features of Chainguard Containers include:

• Minimal design, without unnecessary software bloat
• Daily builds to ensure container images are up-to-date with available security patches
• High quality build-time SBOMs attesting to the provenance of all artifacts within the image
• Verifiable signatures provided by Sigstore
• Reproducible builds with Cosign and apko (read more about reproducibility)

For cases where you need container images with shells and package managers to build or debug, most Chainguard Containers come paired with a -dev variant.

Although the -dev container image variants have similar security features as their more minimal versions, they feature additional software that is typically not necessary in production environments. We recommend using multi-stage builds to leverage the -dev variants, copying application artifacts into a final minimal container that offers a reduced attack surface that won’t allow package installations or logins.

Learn More

To better understand how to work with Chainguard Containers, please visit Chainguard Academy and Chainguard Courses.

In addition to Containers, Chainguard offers VMs and Libraries. Contact Chainguard to access additional products.

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