New Chainguard Images November 2024: Bun, CockroachDB, Open Liberty

Happy holidays! With the holiday season in full swing, our team is still running strong, with 70 new images built in November. This is on top of our existing catalog, totaling over 1,000 container images!

You can learn more about these new images, and all our other ones, in our Directory. As a reminder, we recently updated our Developer tier offerings. Please see this notice from our support team for more information.

Like always, there are many new FIPS-enabled images. For images with both FIPS and non-FIPS variations, we included only FIPS in the list below. However, you can view the non-FIPS versions in our Directory as well.

If something on this list sparks your interest, please get in touch. Treat your team to the gift of zero CVEs during the holidays! 🎁

November’s complete Chainguard Image batch

Featured Chainguard Images

We’re really proud of all of these new images, but there are a few that stand out. Our new Open Liberty base image is a great server runtime environment. With CockroachDB, users can build, scale, and manage modern, data-intensive applications. And Bun is a Javascript runtime and toolkit that makes it easy to run and test apps.

Open Liberty

• Overview: Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment. It’s a lightweight framework designed for building fast and efficient cloud-native Java microservices.

• What’s New: Our Open Liberty base image is Wolfi-based, unlike upstream, which leverages Ubuntu and UBI.

• Use Cases: Open Liberty is a solid choice for environments utilizing cloud-native Java microservices and applications that are looking for faster startup times and more efficient cloud resource utilization.

CockroachDB

• Overview: CockroachDB is a cloud-native distributed SQL database built for cloud applications. It is designed to provide an easier path to horizontal scaling, greatly increasing capacity.

• What’s New: The Chainguard CockroachDB image has been released with an OpenSSL equivalent, giving its users access to a version that prioritizes security, non-root execution, and minimal runtime dependencies.

• Use Cases: CockroachDB is great for any company looking to horizontally scale their cluster, in situations where data and user load is increasing rapidly.

Bun

• Overview: Bun is a Javascript runtime and package manager built using Zig. It’s considered an “all-in-one toolkit” for Javascript and Typescript applications.

• What’s New: Chainguard’s Bun image is designed with security in mind, with zero CVEs and detailed provenance and software bill of materials (SBOMs).

• Use Cases: Bun is primarily used for developing web applications where high performance and fast startup times are crucial. It also has prototyping and local development benefits.

Chainguard Images: Safe Source for Open Source

Chainguard Images are built to drive developer productivity, achieve compliance goals, and provide a risk-free environment for teams to build on. Our images have zero CVEs, and are supported by a world-class SLA to ensure they stay that way.

Want to learn more about the capabilities Chainguard Images can unlock for your organization? Hear from Snowflake, a Chainguard customer:

Visit our Images Directory today and contact us if you are interested in anything discussed in this blog, or otherwise displayed in the Directory. The time savings and increased productivity these images can enable for your organization is staggering!