Run any vulnerability scanner against a standard python, node or nginx image from Docker Hub and you'll get hundreds of CVE findings — almost none of which your team wrote, and all of which your customers' security teams will ask about. For India's SaaS exporters and DevOps teams, this has become a deal-blocking problem: enterprise buyers in the US and Europe now demand clean vulnerability reports and SBOMs before signing.

The base-image problem, quantified

Chainguard's own comparison tool shows that replacing just five common base images — Go, Node, Python, Ruby and Rust — with hardened equivalents eliminates around 2,517 known vulnerabilities, a 99.84% reduction. Across customers, the average CVE reduction is 97.6%, with attack surface cut by ~85% because the images contain no shell, no package manager, and nothing else an intruder can live off.

What makes Chainguard different

  • Rebuilt from source daily in a SLSA L3-compliant factory — not patched occasionally like Alpine/Debian bases
  • Zero known CVEs at ship time, with a remediation SLA — critical CVEs fixed in ~20 hours on average
  • Signed, with SBOMs and provenance — the exact evidence SOC 2, PCI DSS and enterprise security questionnaires ask for
  • 2,479+ projects covered — language runtimes, nginx, databases, the whole Kubernetes/observability stack, CI tools and AI/ML images, plus FIPS variants
  • Free tier on core developer images (Go, Node, Python, Ruby, Rust, nginx, JDK) — you can pilot today at zero cost

Who's switching, and why

SaaS companies switch when a big enterprise deal stalls on a security review — swapping base images turns a quarter of patching into a sprint. Platform/DevOps teams switch when they calculate what maintaining in-house golden images costs (industry estimate: ~1,000 engineering hours per image per year). Kubernetes shops switch for the operational wins: smaller pulls, faster pod starts, and scanner dashboards that finally stay green. Globally, OpenAI, Snowflake, Canva, Snap and Elastic run on Chainguard; the same images are available to a 20-person startup in Bangalore or Pune.

The supply-chain angle Indian teams overlook

Containers are only half the exposure. The npm and PyPI ecosystems have suffered repeated account-hijack and typosquatting attacks, and one poisoned dependency reaches production in your next build. Chainguard Libraries rebuilds Java, Python and JavaScript packages from verified source in the same guarded factory — so public-registry malware never enters your dependency tree.

Getting Chainguard in India

Invitty provides Chainguard across India — local procurement with INR billing and GST invoice, base-image mapping, a measured pilot on 2–3 services, Dockerfile migration help and CI integration, delivered remotely to any city. See our Chainguard page → or take 30 seconds to send us your current base-image list for a before/after CVE projection.