Package
Package your source code per industry standard best practices, thoroughly analyze the code, and gain deep visibility into all components that make up the software.
A single image build pipeline for all platforms
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Verify
Verify your packaged images at scale through functional, performance, and compliance tests, as well as security scans that ensure production readiness across multiple platforms.
Publish
Publish the verified images on object storage platforms or OCI registries as needed, along with all necessary information to ensure compliance.
Why VMware Image Builder
Fully automated pipeline
Automate all processes across the image build pipeline and trigger the pipeline based on your enterprise’s business rules.
Packaged per best practices
Package different types of software (e.g., Dockerfiles and Helm charts), analyze their code, and get an inventory of components along with the packaged software per enterprise-standard best practices.
Secure and compliant
Run all packaged software through functional, performance, and compliance tests and security scans to make sure they’re ready for production with the resultant detailed logs, reports, and Software Bill of Materials.
Modularity
Use our three modules—package, verify, and publish—separately or together, as needed, directly with your pre-existing development platforms and CI/CD pipelines.
Platform-agnostic service
Use the service as a single centralized platform to verify and publish images across all cloud and Kubernetes platforms—eliminating the need for multiple point products.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is VMware Image Builder?
VMware Image Builder is a platform-agnostic, API-first modular service that allows large enterprises and independent software vendors to automate the packaging, verification, and publishing processes of software artifacts on any platform and cloud.
What problems does VMware Image Builder solve?
VMware Image Builder addresses the growing challenges that enterprises face in packaging, verifying, and publishing their software images across different platforms.
- It helps in tracking vulnerabilities, mitigating security risks, and ensuring compliance during the process of publishing software images.
- It provides a single platform for packaging, verifying, and publishing images across multiple platforms, replacing several point products.
- It integrates with pre-existing development platforms and CI/CD pipelines and helps expand them across multiple clouds and Kubernetes platforms.
- It helps in automating the many cumbersome, manual tasks in a typical image build pipeline.
- It reduces the costs and administrative burden associated with working on multiple clouds and Kubernetes platforms.
How does VMware Image Builder work?
VMware Image Builder consists of three modules: Package, Verify, and Publish. Each module works independently.
- The Package module packages the source code of your software, analyzes the code, and provides deep visibility into all the components that make up the software.
- The Verify module verifies the packaged images at scale through functional, performance, and compliance tests as well as security scans that ensure production readiness across multiple platforms.
- The Publishing module publishes the verified images on internal or external registries with all the necessary information to ensure compliance.
All activities performed by the three modules are fully automated and triggered based on set business rules.
Where can I go to learn more about VMware Image Builder?
VMware Image Builder is currently in beta. The product is rapidly evolving, and it’s being enhanced every day thanks to the feedback we’re receiving from our design customers. If you’re interested in knowing more or would like to be part of our Beta program, please reach out to us.
Which businesses use VMware Image Builder?
VMware Image Builder is currently being used by design customers who have partnered with us through our Tech Preview and Beta programs. In fact, VMware Application Catalog leverages VMware Image Builder to continuously maintain and verify thousands of app customizations for use in production environments.
Large enterprises and independent software vendors who build their own software and distribute it across multiple platforms stand to benefit the most from VMware Image Builder.
Who can use VMware Image Builder, and how can they benefit from using the product?
People across the DevSecOps spectrum can use VMware Image Builder.
- Developers can integrate the service with CI/CD workflows to verify changes continuously and automatically across multiple Kubernetes platforms.
- IT administrators can seamlessly deliver up-to-date, reliable, production-ready base images and components to other teams.
- Compliance teams can ensure traceability of all components and versions included in software packages.