velero-plugin-for-alicloud-fips

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Chainguard Container for velero-plugin-for-alicloud-fips

FIPS-enabled Velero storage-provider plugin for Alibaba Cloud (OSS object store and ECS disk snapshots)

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Download this Container Image

For those with access, this container image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/velero-plugin-for-alicloud-fips:latest

Be sure to replace the ORGANIZATION placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard Registry.

Compatibility Notes

Chainguard's velero-plugin-for-alicloud-fips ships the same velero-plugin-for-alibabacloud binary as the non-FIPS variant (same upstream AliyunContainerService/velero-plugin v1.0.0 source, same /plugins → /target init-container contract), built against the Microsoft Go FIPS 140-3 toolchain so no changes to Velero manifests or velero install flags are required when switching registries.

FIPS Support

The plugin binary is built with go-msft-1.27, which routes Go stdlib crypto through the FIPS 140-3-validated OpenSSL provider. The go-msft toolchain HMACs its own text section at startup and aborts on tamper, which is why this image does not carry xcover instrumentation.

Note that only the plugin executable is copied into Velero at init-container time — the OpenSSL config files and provider shared objects stay in this image's rootfs and do not follow the binary. The running plugin's crypto backend is therefore established by the Velero container image, not by this one. When Velero itself is a FIPS build (for example velero-fips), the plugin links against that container's validated provider; when Velero's base image does not supply one, the go-msft runtime falls back to its validated Go-module implementation. For more detail, see the FIPS-enabled images guide.

Getting Started

See the non-FIPS variant's Getting Started section for the install flow — the two images share the same manifests and configuration; only the Chainguard image reference changes:

sed -i "s#registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/velero-plugin-alibabacloud:[^ \"]*#cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/velero-plugin-for-alicloud-fips:latest#" install/01-velero.yaml

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