8 Chainguard Alternatives And Complements With Language Library Coverage
Hardened container images solved one part of the software supply chain problem. The operating system layer can now ship with few or no vulnerabilities known at the time it was built, and it can be rebuilt and repatched continuously. But most of the code running in a modern application does not come from the base image. It comes from the Python wheels, npm packages, and Java JARs that developers pull in every day, and that is where many of the most damaging recent attacks have landed: typosquatted packages, hijacked maintainer accounts, backdoored releases, and install scripts that quietly exfiltrate secrets.
Chainguard responded to that shift by extending its catalog to language libraries for Java, Python, and JavaScript, rebuilt from verified upstream source and delivered through its own repositories. Many teams are now evaluating the category more broadly, looking for providers that cover the ecosystems and versions they actually use, reduce...
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