For the complete documentation index, see llms.txt.

Getting Started

What is Chainguard?
An overview of Chainguard: its mission to be the secure source for open source, its products (Containers, Libraries, and OS), and the Factory that builds them.
Getting started with Guardener
Install the Guardener GitHub App and link your Chainguard organization to your GitHub organization to start using Guardener.
Quickstart for Chainguard Containers
An end-to-end walkthrough of Chainguard Containers: pull a free container, run a small Node.js application on it, and verify the image's signature and SBOM.
Onboard your teams
Onboard your teams to Chainguard Containers and Chainguard Libraries: what your organization can pull, how subscriptions differ, and how to retrieve SBOMs and provenance.
Getting started with FIPS containers
Deploy and verify your first Chainguard FIPS container
Set up Chainguard in your CI/CD pipeline
Where each Chainguard product fits in a CI/CD pipeline: hardening the repository, authenticating without long-lived secrets, pulling trusted inputs, building, verifying, gating deploys, and staying current.
Getting started with skill hardening
Upload an agent skill for hardening, track the job, browse results in user folders, and review the report before installing the skill.