Chainguard Libraries and Containers

Chainguard, Inc. is a software supply chain security company whose privacy notice states it is headquartered in the United States; the pages fetched give no founding year. It sells secured open source so that containers, dependencies and CI/CD actions arrive free of known malware and vulnerabilities.

Products include Containers, Libraries, VMs and OS packages, Actions and Checks for trusted CI, and Agent Skills, Workspaces and Harness for coding agents. A Console with a compliance dashboard and SLSA L3 provenance documentation support audits. Named customers include Nasdaq, Snowflake, Canva and DocuSign.

• Chainguard Containers: minimal hardened images maintained against known CVEs.
• Chainguard Libraries: language dependencies built from source, now covering Go and .NET.
• Actions and Checks: trusted CI components for pipelines.
• Agent Skills, Workspaces and Harness: controls for AI coding agents.
• Console Insights and Compliance dashboards powered by Guardener.
• VMs and OS packages for a trusted base layer.

A Vietnamese fintech running Kubernetes can swap base images for hardened ones to shorten scan remediation. A software exporter can supply provenance evidence to enterprise clients.

• Hardened container images and libraries reduce vulnerability backlog from the start.
• FIPS image catalog and solution pages for FedRAMP, PCI DSS, CMMC and SOC 2.
• Provenance documented to SLSA L3 for audit evidence.
• A free start option and 200+ Helm charts and 3,000+ images cited on the site.

Repeated package registry compromises (the blog reports a LiteLLM attack in Oct 2026) drive demand for vetted dependencies. Vietnamese cloud-native teams running containers on AWS or GCP can start from hardened base images.

Chainguard, Inc., US (per privacy notice). Investors listed: Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, Redpoint, Sequoia and Spark Capital. Featured in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Supply Chain Security.