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title: Golden Image Best Practices Guide
description: 10 tips from security and engineering experts on building a golden container image program that reduces risk and optimizes engineering resources.
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Golden container image programs are designed to create secure, standardized, and reproducible base and third party application images for building and running software. In this guide, we’ll outline who is involved in a golden image program, and share 10 tips you can implement at your organization to use golden images to reduce risk, optimize engineering resources, and release products faster.

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###### **Make your Golden Images Shine**

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###### **Why Golden Images Still Matter**

Hear more about golden image programs from Chainguard engineering and security experts.  
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