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Chainguard in India — Zero-CVE Container Images for DevOps & SaaS Teams

Hardened, zero-CVE container images, libraries and VMs from Chainguard — built from source daily with SBOMs and SLSA L3 provenance. For DevOps, SaaS and Kubernetes teams. Serving Chennai · Bangalore · Hyderabad · Coimbatore · Kochi · Madurai · Trichy · Salem · Vellore · Tirunelveli and all of South India.

If your team runs Kubernetes or ships a SaaS product, you know the cycle: every scan dumps hundreds of CVEs from base images you didn't write, security blocks the release, and engineers burn sprints patching other people's code. Chainguard ends that cycle — minimal container images rebuilt from source daily, shipping with zero known CVEs, full SBOMs and SLSA L3 build provenance. Customers report a 97.6% average reduction in CVEs and ~85% smaller attack surface, with critical CVEs remediated in an average of 20 hours under SLA.

Invitty brings Chainguard to Indian engineering teams — local procurement in INR with GST invoicing, licensing guidance, migration support from Docker Hub/Alpine/Debian base images, and integration with your existing scanners and registries. Trusted globally by OpenAI, Snowflake, Canva, Snap and Elastic; now available with a partner next door in Chennai.

What We Deliver

  • Chainguard Containers — 1,500+ hardened images (nginx, Python, Node, Java, Postgres, and more) as drop-in replacements for your current base images
  • Migration support — Dockerfile conversion from Alpine/Debian/Ubuntu bases, registry setup, CI integration and rollout playbooks
  • Compliance acceleration — SBOMs, signatures and provenance that satisfy SOC 2, PCI DSS, FedRAMP and customer security questionnaires out of the box
  • Scanner integration — works with Trivy, Grype, Snyk, Prisma, Wiz — watch your vulnerability dashboards drop to near zero
  • Local procurement & support — INR billing, GST invoice, licensing right-sizing and first-line support from our Chennai team

The Chainguard Product Line

ContainersMinimal zero-CVE images, daily rebuilds
LibrariesGuarded Java/Python/JS libraries
VMsHardened VM images from source
OS PackagesSecure ingredients for custom builds
CI/CD ActionsSecure-by-default pipeline workflows

Who needs Chainguard — and why now

SaaS companies: enterprise customers now demand zero-CVE reports and SBOMs in security reviews — Chainguard turns that from a quarter-long project into a base-image swap. DevOps/platform teams: stop maintaining golden images by hand; Chainguard rebuilds and patches daily so your paved road stays paved. Kubernetes shops: minimal distroless-style images cut image size, cold-start time and attack surface across every cluster.

The math is compelling: organisations save an estimated 1,000+ engineering hours per year per image they no longer harden and patch themselves. If your team spends even one sprint a quarter on CVE triage, Chainguard typically pays for itself. Share your image list and we'll prepare a pilot plan with pricing.

What's in the Chainguard Catalog

The directory at images.chainguard.dev currently spans 2,479 projects, 257,000+ versions and 510,000+ images — rebuilt from source daily. Whatever your stack runs on, there's almost certainly a hardened drop-in for it:

CategoryPopular images
Languages & runtimesPython, Node, Go, Ruby, Rust, Bun, JDK/JRE (OpenJDK & Adoptium), .NET ASP.NET runtime
Web servers & proxiesnginx, Apache httpd, Envoy, OpenResty, HAProxy, ingress-nginx
Databases & dataMySQL, MariaDB, ClickHouse, MinIO, RabbitMQ, pgAdmin, SeaweedFS
Kubernetes & observabilityPrometheus, Grafana Alloy, Jaeger, Fluentd, Falco, Calico, Linkerd, Velero, Trivy, kube-logging
CI/CD & DevOpsJenkins, GitLab images, Argo Workflows, Tekton, docker-compose, k6, Crossplane, step-cli
AI/MLKubeflow components, AI category images for model serving and pipelines
  • Free tier: core developer images (Go, Node, Python, Ruby, Rust, nginx, JDK/JRE, ASP.NET) are free to use — start today, zero cost
  • FIPS variants: FIPS-validated builds of hundreds of images for regulated environments (banking, government, defence)
  • Helm charts: guarded charts so the whole deployment, not just the container, is secured

A real number from Chainguard's own comparison tool: replacing just five common base images (Go, Node, Python, Ruby, Rust) with their hardened equivalents eliminates ~2,517 known vulnerabilities — a 99.84% reduction.

Chainguard Libraries — beyond containers

The npm and PyPI ecosystems have been hit repeatedly by supply-chain attacks — malicious packages typosquatting popular names or hijacking maintainer accounts. Chainguard Libraries applies the same build-from-source model to Java, Python and JavaScript dependencies: every library in the guarded catalog is rebuilt from verified source in Chainguard's SLSA L3 factory, so a poisoned package on a public registry never reaches your build. Canva uses exactly this to shield its engineering org from npm/PyPI malware. If you ship software, your dependency tree is your biggest blind spot — this closes it.

Use Cases — where Chainguard pays for itself

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SaaS passing enterprise security reviews

Your prospect's security team demands a clean vulnerability report and SBOMs. Instead of weeks of patching theatre before every deal, your scanner report shows near-zero CVEs by default — reviews that took quarters close in days.

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DevOps golden image programs

Platform teams maintaining in-house hardened base images spend ~1,000 engineering hours per image per year on patching and rebuilds. Chainguard does that daily, automatically — your paved road stays paved without the toll.

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Kubernetes attack-surface reduction

Minimal images contain no shell, no package manager, nothing an attacker can live off. ~85% smaller attack surface, smaller image pulls, faster pod starts — across every node in every cluster.

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Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS, FIPS

Auditors want evidence of vulnerability management and software provenance. Signed images, SBOMs and SLSA L3 attestation satisfy SOC 2 and PCI requirements out of the box; FIPS image variants cover regulated and government workloads.

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CVE fire-drills, ended

Next Log4Shell-class event: instead of an all-hands weekend hunting affected images, you pull the patched Chainguard build — critical CVEs are remediated upstream in ~20 hours under SLA, with the fix traceable in the advisory feed.

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AI workloads, safely

AI teams pull experimental images and packages constantly — a supply-chain risk multiplier. Hardened AI/ML images (Kubeflow and model-serving stacks) plus guarded libraries keep velocity without inheriting the ecosystem's malware.

Serving DevOps & SaaS Teams Across All of India

Chainguard adoption is cloud-native work — we deliver it remotely to any city in India: Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, Gurgaon, Noida, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Coimbatore, Trivandrum, Indore, Jaipur and beyond. Pilots, Dockerfile migration, CI integration and licensing are all handled over screen-share and your Git workflow, with on-site workshops available in South India. Wherever your engineering team sits, you get the same INR billing, GST invoicing and same-day responses.

How adoption works with Invitty

Free assessment (Week 0)

Share your base-image list (or a scanner export). We map each to its Chainguard equivalent and project your before/after CVE count.

Pilot (Weeks 1–3)

Swap base images on 2–3 services using the free tier where possible. Validate builds in CI, measure the scanner-report drop.

Licensing (Week 4)

Right-sized subscription for the images you actually use — INR billing, GST invoice, procurement handled locally by us in Chennai.

Rollout & support

Phased migration across services with Dockerfile conversion help, registry/CI integration, and our team as first-line support.

♻️ Already using Chainguard? Renew your license with us — often cheaper

You don't have to renew with the vendor who originally sold it. As an authorized partner we handle Containers, Libraries, VMs, OS Packages, CI/CD Actions license renewals across India — same-day GST quote, multi-year discounts, and a renewal calendar so your protection never lapses. Many businesses save 10–25% just by getting a second quote before auto-renewing.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Chainguard and how is it different from Alpine or distroless images?
Chainguard images are minimal like distroless, but rebuilt from source every day with patches applied immediately, shipped with zero known CVEs, signed, and accompanied by SBOMs and SLSA L3 provenance. Alpine/Debian bases accumulate CVEs between releases; Chainguard images carry an SLA for remediation — 20 hours average for critical CVEs.
Which images are available — will our stack be covered?
The catalog spans 2,479 projects: every major language runtime (Python, Node, Go, Java, .NET, Ruby, Rust), web servers (nginx, httpd, Envoy), databases (MySQL, MariaDB, ClickHouse), the Kubernetes/observability ecosystem (Prometheus, Falco, Linkerd, Velero), CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Argo, Tekton) and AI/ML stacks — plus FIPS variants and Helm charts. Core developer images are free to start with.
What are Chainguard Libraries and do we need them too?
Libraries applies the same protection to your dependency tree — Java, Python and JavaScript packages rebuilt from verified source, immune to the npm/PyPI account-hijack and typosquatting attacks. If your product is software, containers cover the runtime and Libraries cover the supply chain feeding it; most SaaS teams eventually want both.
Will Chainguard images work with our existing Dockerfiles and Kubernetes setup?
Yes — they're drop-in replacements for common bases (Python, Node, Java, Go, nginx, Postgres and 1,500+ more). Minor Dockerfile adjustments are sometimes needed (no shell/package manager in runtime variants — that's the security point). We handle the migration with your team.
How does Chainguard help with SOC 2, PCI DSS or customer security reviews?
Every image ships with a signed SBOM and build provenance, and your scanner reports drop to near zero CVEs — exactly the evidence auditors and enterprise procurement teams ask for. It also pairs naturally with our SOC 2 and VAPT services for a complete compliance story.
How is Chainguard priced in India?
Pricing is per-image-catalog subscription based on the images and tiers your team uses; a free tier of developer images exists for evaluation. Through Invitty you get INR billing with GST invoice and licensing right-sized to your actual usage — share your base-image list for a same-day estimate.
Can we run a pilot before committing?
Yes — the typical pilot replaces base images for 2–3 services, measures the CVE-count drop in your scanner, and validates the build pipeline in 2–4 weeks. We set the pilot up with your DevOps team and present the before/after numbers.
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