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Chainguard builds and distributes container images, and Chainguard Containers is its core product. It turns packages from Wolfi, its Linux distribution, into signed and attested container images at scale. Every artifact Chainguard distributes is evaluated by its scanner before it reaches a customer. Chainguard also builds Athena, which processes vulnerability reports from enterprise customers, validates and deduplicates findings, and routes clean signals to remediation. Chainguard writes everything in Go.
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Route threat alerts while engineers rebuild the evidence
Emerging-threat alerts leave engineers piecing together scanner, SBOM, and signature evidence before they can set severity. You must decide what the route gathers automatically and what remains an engineer judgment.
Trace 404 causes without sending engineers down false paths
Enterprise build requests are returning 404s even when the package exists upstream. You must weigh faster investigation against the evidence an engineer needs to trust a diagnosis.
Trace failed builds while daily patches wait
A failed image build can leave a patched dependency out of the daily catalog for hours. You must weigh faster AI triage against the evidence engineers need to trust a cause.
Prove a kit works for one team in Azure within 45 days
Three European prospects paused because image-level guidance did not show an Azure operating pattern. You must weigh customer-specific proof against a kit that partners can reuse without rewriting it.
Settle the image baseline for 140 services before procurement locks it
Checksum failures hit 29 of 140 services after rebuilt dependencies changed their lockfile expectations. You must weigh release continuity against a production baseline that keeps rebuilt updates available.
Map base images while the POV window is still open
Five legacy image references cause 36 failed pulls a day and leave Docker build success at 82%. You must weigh a narrow reference-mapping POV against a competing registry-side remedy that uses the same pipeline window.
Test pull policies before a surprise block reaches Kubernetes
Pilot customers cannot predict which signed image pulls their new policies will deny. You must weigh enforceable supply-chain controls against release flows that need understandable outcomes.
Settle verdicts for flagged images before exceptions become permanent
Several common images are blocked after a new detection conflicts with earlier clean scans. You must weigh fast customer recovery against the risk of serving a compromised artifact.
Isolate scans of large layers so patched pulls stop stalling
Patched images are waiting 37 minutes for scanner verdicts while large layers occupy the queue. You must weigh faster routing against preserving verdict-before-serve guarantees.
Surface affected images when a package alert hits
Platform security engineers are manually rebuilding affected-image lists when package alerts arrive. You must weigh a useful first query surface against durable API semantics and evidence accuracy.
Commit source checks before patched images miss the rebuild cycle
Patched images are being held when source URLs and signed commits disagree. You must weigh release speed against evidence customers can defend.
Fix manifests from the agent instead of reverting the prompt
Generated manifests are failing runtime validation, delaying updated images for common workloads. You must weigh a targeted correction against rolling back prompt improvements that other packages use.
Prove the value of signed images to security leaders in 90 days
Pilot customers are using signed images, but security leaders cannot see a clear outcome from that usage. You have to weigh a repeatable programme against each customer’s different compliance and adoption story.
Win back a renewal without freezing Kubernetes deployments
A financial-services customer may not renew because 5% of in-scope running images lack traceable evidence. You have to weigh an auditable recovery commitment against the customer’s need to keep releases moving.
Move signed images into releases without adding an approval queue
Only 18 of 70 intended application teams are using signed images in production. You must weigh faster adoption against keeping the platform security team’s evidence standard intact.
Expose proof of each download without slowing the registry
Pilot buyers cannot tie a downloaded dependency to one usable verification record today. You have to weigh audit-ready evidence against a registry response path developers depend on.
Contain a suspect package without freezing customer builds
A suspected JavaScript package was served after a scanner finding, while other builds are already being denied. You have to weigh immediate containment against the risk of interrupting unaffected dependency requests.
Preserve lockfile checksums while pinned packages change source
Checksum failures are blocking 6.2% of package fetches for affected JavaScript organizations. You must weigh stable lockfiles against serving the pinned artifact source with defensible provenance.