Announcing: ContainerForge

Nov 12, 2025

We’re excited to finally introduce ContainerForge, a new project under the TrueForge–TrueTech umbrella — and the foundation for all future TrueCharts containers!

🔗 Learn more: trueforge.org/truetech/containerforge
💬 Join the discussion: on our Discord
💻 Explore the code: github.com/trueforge-org/containerforge 💖 Support our work: Sponsor us on GitHub or OpenCollective

🧩 What Is ContainerForge?

ContainerForge is an opinionated collection of container images — focused on being efficient, consistent, and easy to maintain.

Our containers follow modern standards and proven best practices:

✅ Rootless by default (568:568) for security and compatibility
✅ Multi-architecture builds (x86 and ARM)
✅ Semantically versioned and digest-pinnable for predictable updates
✅ Single-process design for simplicity and transparency

Our guiding principle is simple:

“Build efficient, standardised and secure containers.”

⚙️ Built with TrueNAS in Mind

While ContainerForge isn’t built exclusively for TrueNAS, it’s designed to work exceptionally well with TrueNAS’ Custom App and Docker Compose deployment options.

Here’s how we make that experience smoother:

Correct Default User (568:568) – Matches TrueNAS’ Apps user to avoid permission issues
Automatic Update Control – TrueNAS can automatically track and update containers by digest, patch, minor, or major version
Consistent Configuration Paths – Standardized /config directories simplify backups and migration
Ubuntu-based Base Images – Ensuring stable, secure, and well-supported foundations

These considerations make deploying ContainerForge images on TrueNAS a clean and predictable experience — without needing extra tweaks or compatibility layers.

🧱 Standardised, Extensible, and Transparent

ContainerForge builds upon the experience of existing projects such as home-operations, linuxserver.io, and hotio.dev.

What makes it different:

Consistent Standards — All images follow a unified base and structure
Transparency — Each build is verifiable with GitHub Actions attestations
Community Alignment — Designed for TrueCharts integration and home-lab friendliness

And because every image shares a common, well-defined base (Ubuntu, Python, Node, Golang, Java, etc.), ContainerForge enables fast, reliable updates across the board.

🧰 What’s Next

This is only the beginning.
We’re planning to expand ContainerForge with pre-made example Docker Compose files, making deployment even easier for users who prefer direct container setups over Helm or Kubernetes.

Our long-term goal: provide a complete, consistent container ecosystem that works great everywhere — whether through TrueCharts, TrueNAS, or standalone Docker Compose setups.

📦 Explore Today

Start exploring the collection now:
👉 GitHub Packages

Full documentation and details:
👉 trueforge.org/truetech/containerforge

💬 Get Involved

ContainerForge is an open, community-driven project.
We welcome feedback, contributions, and discussions from everyone interested in building and running better containers.

Join us on GitHub or Discord, and help shape the next generation of container infrastructure for the TrueForge ecosystem.