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Runtime · Language runtime · standard · v5.44.0

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Hardened Perl interpreter for scripts, text processing, and tooling. A base image to FROM for Perl workloads. Latest stable (5).

Signed
cosign keyless
SBOM
SPDX, on digest
Provenance
SLSA build
Architectures
amd64, arm64
Runs as
nonroot (uid 1001)
Image size
14.2 MB
Last rebuilt
2026-07-21

Security report (Trivy)

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Security report (Trivy) · perl 5.44.0

Published versions

1 tag

Each tag is a multi-arch index (amd64 + arm64) pinned by digest. Tagged by version, never :latest.

VersionSizePublishedDigest
5.44.0latest14.2 MB2026-07-21sha256:36a30810647e…

Use it as a base image

Reference it in the FROM line of your Dockerfile. Nonroot, read-only root filesystem, built for amd64 and arm64.

FROM ghcr.io/quenchworks/images/perl:5.44.0

Or pull it directly

docker pull ghcr.io/quenchworks/images/perl:5.44.0
Version line
5.44.0
Latest line
5.44.0
Architectures
amd64, arm64
Runs as
nonroot (uid 1001)
Root filesystem
read-only
License
Artistic-1.0-Perl OR GPL-1.0+

Verify the supply chain

This image is cosign-signed and carries an SPDX SBOM and a SLSA build-provenance attestation on the same digest. Check all three before you build on it:

# 1. signature — built and signed by QuenchWorks CI
cosign verify ghcr.io/quenchworks/images/perl:5.44.0 \
  --certificate-identity-regexp 'https://github.com/quenchworks/.+' \
  --certificate-oidc-issuer https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com

# 2. SLSA build provenance — which workflow built it, from what
cosign verify-attestation --type https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1 ghcr.io/quenchworks/images/perl:5.44.0 \
  --certificate-identity-regexp 'https://github.com/quenchworks/.+' \
  --certificate-oidc-issuer https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com

# 3. SPDX SBOM — the package inventory
cosign verify-attestation --type https://spdx.dev/Document/v2.3 ghcr.io/quenchworks/images/perl:5.44.0 \
  --certificate-identity-regexp 'https://github.com/quenchworks/.+' \
  --certificate-oidc-issuer https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com

See the SBOM & provenance guide for reading the SBOM and using these checks in CI.

Best-practice Dockerfile for 5.44.0

Install CPAN dependencies into a local lib with cpanm in the build stage, then copy that tree and the app onto a clean perl base.

ghcr.io/quenchworks/images/perl:5.44.014.2 MBrebuilt 18 days ago
# Build stage: install CPAN deps into a local lib (build deps included).
FROM ghcr.io/quenchworks/images/perl:5.44.0 AS build
USER root
WORKDIR /app
ENV PERL_CPANM_HOME=/tmp/cpanm
COPY cpanfile ./
RUN ["cpanm", "--notest", "--local-lib=/app/local", "--installdeps", "."]
COPY . .
# Runtime stage: copy the local lib + app onto a clean perl base.
FROM ghcr.io/quenchworks/images/perl:5.44.0 AS runtime
WORKDIR /app
ENV PERL5LIB=/app/local/lib/perl5 \
PATH="/app/local/bin:$PATH"
COPY --from=build /app /app
USER 1001
EXPOSE 5000
CMD ["perl", "app.pl"]

This Dockerfile is pinned to the 5.44.0 line. For the line-by-line walkthrough and ecosystem variants (npm/Yarn, pip/uv/Poetry, Maven/Gradle), see the Build hardened imagesguide.

Upstream project: https://www.perl.org