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What is Chainguard?

An introduction to Chainguard Containers and Chainguard Libraries: what they are, who they serve, how they work together, and the key concepts and terminology behind them.
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Chainguard Containers

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Chainguard Libraries

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How they fit together

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Key concepts and terminology

A single glossary spanning both pillars: distroless, -dev versus production variants, pinned tags, and FIPS for containers; rebuilt-from-source, drop-in replacement, and the libraries endpoint for libraries.

Container concepts

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Library concepts

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