alt Hacker NewsA Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images
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First look shows me that this is not an easy drop in replacement. First thing is this requires a log-in and makes me wonder why this is required. Perhaps some upselling coming.
With Bitnami discontinuing their offer, we recently switched to other providers. For some we are using a helm chart and this new offer provides some helm charts but for some software just the image. I would be interested to give this a try but e.g. the python image only various '(dev)' images while the guide mentions the non-dev images. So this requires some planning.
EDIT: Digging deeper, I notice it requires a PAT and a PAT is bound to a personal account. I guess you need the enterprise offering for organisation support. I am not going to waste my time to contact them for an enterprise offer for a small start-up. What is the use case for CVE hardened images that you cannot properly run in an CICD and only on your dev machine? Are there companies that need to follow compliance rules or need this security guarantee but don't have CICD in place?
The news: Docker Hardened Images (DHI) are now free to use for everyone. No reason not to use them.
Offering image hardening to custom images looks like a reasonable way for Docker to have a source of sustained income. Regulated industries like banks, insurers, or governmental agencies are likely interested.
I appreciate what they're doing here, which is something I haven't seen other vendors doing.
Is this the response to the Bitnami/VMWare/Broadcom Helm charts thing?
At $work, we switched everything to Redhat’s ubi images (micro and minimal) for that.
But, we pay for support already.
Nice from docker!
I went to "Hardened Images Catalog" and searched for pgbouncer, not found (https://hub.docker.com/hardened-images/catalog?search=pgboun...)
There's a "Make a request" button, but it links to this 404-ing GitHub URL: https://github.com/docker-hardened-images/discussion/issues
oh well. hope its good stuff otherwise.
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Wow, "hardened image" market is getting saturated. I saw atleast 3 companies offering this at Kubecon.
Chainguard came to this first (arguably by accident since they had several other offerings before they realized that people would pay (?!!) for a image that reported zero CVEs).
In a previous role, I found that the value for this for startups is immense. Large enterprise deals can quickly be killed by a security team that that replies with "scanner says no". Chainguard offered images that report 0 CVEs and would basically remove this barrier.
For example, a common CVE that I encountered was a glibc High CVE. We could pretty convincingly show that our app did not use this library in way to be vulnerable but it didn't matter. A high CVE is a full stop for most security teams. Migrated to a Wolfi image and the scanner reported 0. Cool.
But with other orgs like Minimus (founders of Twistlock) coming into this it looks like its about to be crowded.
There is even a govt project called Ironbank to offer something like this to the DoD.
Net positive for the ecosystem but I don't know if there is enough meat on the bone to support this many vendors.