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Chainguard

Chainguard is a secure-by-default open source software provider delivering hardened, verifiable, production-ready builds of open source software.

Last updated September 15, 2026

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Overview

Chainguard describes itself as building the trusted source for open source, delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds that prevent AI attacks. Its offerings span containers and virtual machines to libraries, packages, agent skills, and actions, built from source in a SLSA L3-compliant Factory with SBOMs and provenance. The company states its team has spent decades building and securing open source technologies, creating and contributing to foundational projects like Kubernetes, Sigstore, Distroless, and DriftlessAF. Chainguard serves customers including Anduril and positions itself for sectors such as financial services.

History

Chainguard states that the team behind it has spent decades building and securing the open source technologies that power modern infrastructure, creating and contributing to foundational projects like Kubernetes, Sigstore, Distroless, and DriftlessAF. The company describes itself as building the trusted source for open source in the age of AI, delivering hardened, verifiable, production-ready builds of the open source software engineers and AI systems depend on.

Products and positioning

The trusted source for open source, delivering secure-by-default, hardened, verifiable, production-ready builds.

  • Hardened container images

    Minimal, hardened artifacts built from source, reducing CVEs in production code by 98%.

  • SLSA L3-compliant Factory

    A build system ensuring every line is verified, hardened, and traceable.

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