https://deploy-preview-3175--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/factory/Recent content in Chainguard Factory onHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USThu, 31 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000https://deploy-preview-3175--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/factory/what-is-factory/Sat, 02 Aug 2025 16:00:00 +0000https://deploy-preview-3175--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/factory/what-is-factory/Transcript Interviewer: So Dustin, can you explain what the Chainguard Factory is? Dustin Kirkland: Yeah, so the Chainguard Factory is the automation that’s at the heart of what we do here at Chainguard. Essentially, we have this build system that’s constantly monitoring over 10,000 open source projects, and the moment that any upstream maintainer tags a new release, our automation springs into action—fetching that source code, checking the checksums, applying our build rules, rebuilding and recompiling that software, retesting that software at the package and unit level.https://deploy-preview-3175--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/factory/overview/Tue, 15 Jul 2025 08:49:31 +0000https://deploy-preview-3175--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/factory/overview/Chainguard Factory is the automated build infrastructure that continuously monitors, builds, and updates thousands of open source projects to deliver containers, libraries, and VMs with a strong security posture and the latest patches. This massive automation system tackles one of the industry’s biggest challenges: keeping software dependencies current at scale while maintaining security and compatibility across the entire open source ecosystem. It is hard to overstate the sheer scale of Chainguard’s task of being the secure source for open source.https://deploy-preview-3175--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/factory/faq/Thu, 17 Jul 2025 08:49:31 +0000https://deploy-preview-3175--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/factory/faq/What is the Chainguard Factory? The Chainguard Factory refers to all the engineering and automation work that goes into building, publishing, and maintaining the software packaged in Chainguard’s products. This includes continuously monitoring, testing, and updating thousands of open source projects that make up Chainguard containers, libraries, and VMs. How does Chainguard keep its software up to date? Chainguard uses automated systems to vigilantly monitor for new releases using the GitHub API, the Release Monitoring project, PyPI, Maven Central and the npm registry.https://deploy-preview-3175--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/factory/what-factory-builds/Sat, 02 Aug 2025 16:00:00 +0000https://deploy-preview-3175--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/factory/what-factory-builds/Transcript Interviewer: So Dustin, what does the Factory actually build every day? Dustin Kirkland: Yeah, so the input is open source software that’s coming in from thousands of upstream maintainers who are very much the experts in what they do. That goes into our Factory. We apply our build automation system and, importantly, our quality control and testing system. Out of that comes a series of artifacts. We produce APKs, which is our package format.https://deploy-preview-3175--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/factory/touring-the-factory/Sat, 02 Aug 2025 16:00:00 +0000https://deploy-preview-3175--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/factory/touring-the-factory/Transcript Interviewer: So Dustin, can you give us a quick tour of the Chainguard Factory? Dustin Kirkland: Yeah, so the Chainguard Factory is the automation that we have inside of Chainguard itself that is able to reproducibly build thousands of open-source projects. We start from a fully bootstrapped-from-source version of the source code. We pull the source code down, we apply our build rules, build that code, test that code, sign that code, and publish that code—first as packages.https://deploy-preview-3175--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/factory/future-of-factory/Sat, 02 Aug 2025 16:00:00 +0000https://deploy-preview-3175--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/factory/future-of-factory/Transcript Interviewer: So what do you see as the future for the Factory? Dustin Kirkland: Well, I’m not going to get into the super secret plans we have for next generation products, but I will tell you that we are constantly expanding the scope of the open source projects that we’re building. So more and more packages—each of those show up as new packages that we’re now able to add to our existing images or build new images around.https://deploy-preview-3175--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/factory/assemble/Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000https://deploy-preview-3175--ornate-narwhal-088216.netlify.app/chainguard/factory/assemble/Transcript Sam (Introduction): We’re very fortunate our Vice President of Engineering, Dustin Kirkland, is going to be walking us through the Chainguard Factory, which you would have heard a little bit about during the keynote today. So I’ll go ahead and turn things over to Dustin. We will have time at the end for questions, so keep that in mind. Thank you. Dustin Kirkland: All right, thank you Sam. Cool, so thank you for joining us.