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## Chainguard's image tagging philosophy: enabling high velocity updates (pt. 2 of 3)

DevFeed: [Chainguard's image tagging philosophy: enabling high velocity updates (pt. 2 of 3)](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/chainguard-s-image-tagging-philosophy-enabling-high-velocity-updates-pt-2-of-3-12989.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/chainguards-image-tagging-philosophy-enabling-high-velocity-updates-pt-2-of-3>)

Published: 2023-11-15T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Chainguard: Unchained](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/chainguard-unchained.md>)

Topics: [container images](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/container-images.md>), [chainguard](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chainguard.md>), [container](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/container.md>), [Git](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/git.md>)

Tags: [chainguard](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chainguard.md>), [container](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/container.md>), [container-images](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/container-images.md>), [content-addressed-tagging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/content-addressed-tagging.md>), [digests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/digests.md>), [git](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git.md>), [git-tags](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git-tags.md>), [image-tagging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/image-tagging.md>), [immutable-tags](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/immutable-tags.md>), [sha-256](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sha-256.md>)

### AI overview

Part 2 of a three-part series explains Chainguard's content-addressed image tagging philosophy. It argues that image digests provide a concise canonical identifier because they incorporate the contents and metadata of the entire container image, and compares them with Git commit SHAs.

### Source excerpt

Dive deeper into Chainguard's approach to image tagging, a cornerstone for swift and efficient container updates in Part 2 of this series.