The ChainGuard Image Is an Undistribution of the Kernel
Wolfie Core OS is an undistribution of the Wolfie operating system. It's designed to be modular in nature, which allows for differing opinions on how things should be done. In ChainGuard images, your container environment provides the kernel services. But down the road, we're planning to target other use cases such as IoT and bare metal.
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In today’s episode, we talk about distroless, ko, apko, melange, musl and glibc. The context is Wolfi OS, a community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era. If you are looking for the lightest possible container base image with 0 CVEs and both glibc and musl support, Wolfi OS & the related chainguard-images are worth checking out.
Ariadne Conill is an Alpine Linux TSC member & Software Engineer at Chainguard.
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