skaffold-fips

packaged by Chainguard

Chainguard Container for skaffold-fips

Minimal container image for running Skaffold applications, optimized for efficiency. It includes only the essential dependencies to build, test, and deploy apps, making it ideal for CI/CD pipelines and development environments

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/skaffold-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

Chainguard's skaffold-fips image is comparable to the official Skaffold image available from the Google Artifact Registry. As with Chainguard's other container image, skaffold-fips is designed for minimalism and doesn't include thigns like a shell or package manager.

FIPS Support

The skaffold-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

By default, Skaffold expects to find a configuration file named skaffold.yaml. You can use the following example to configure Chainguard's skaffold-fips container:

cat > skaffold.yaml <<EOF
apiVersion: skaffold/v4beta6
kind: Config
build:
  artifacts:
    - image: fips-registry/myapp
      docker:
        buildArgs:
          FIPS_MODE: "enabled"
  local:
    useBuildkit: true
EOF

Next, create a kubernetes/deployment.yaml to define your workload:

mkdir -p kubernetes && cat > kubernetes/deployment.yaml <<EOF
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: myapp
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: myapp
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: myapp
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: myapp
          image: your-registry/myapp  # Must match skaffold.yaml image
EOF

Use docker to run the skaffold build command with Chainguard skaffold-fips container image, writing the output of the build to a JSON file:

docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/work -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
    cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/skaffold-fips:latest \
    skaffold build --file-output=artifacts.json

You can now deploy the newly-built image to the configured Kubernetes environment, using the the pre-built artifacts to avoid rebuilding:

skaffold deploy --build-artifacts=artifacts.json

Documentation and Resources

• Official Skaffold Documentation
• Deploying Skaffold with kubectl

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.

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