Key Capabilities / Features

CleanStart offers a range of powerful features designed to enhance security, optimize performance, and streamline the development process for enterprise container images.

Vulnerability-Free Container Images: CleanStart ensures that all containers are free from known vulnerabilities, embedding security into every phase of development. This proactive approach guarantees a secure foundation for your applications from the start.

Optimized and Lean Container Images: CleanStart carefully debloats each container image by removing unnecessary libraries and components. The result is a lighter, faster image that enhances deployment efficiency without sacrificing security.

Seamless CI/CD Integration: CleanStart integrates smoothly with existing CI/CD pipelines, automating security checks to ensure vulnerabilities are addressed right from the development phase. This seamless integration allows DevOps teams to maintain speed without compromising on security.

Centralized Management of Container Images: With the CleanStart Portal, managing image subscriptions has never been easier. Additionally, the CleanStart Repository provides a curated library of security-hardened images, simplifying the management of your security resources.

Digital Signing for Integrity and Provenance: Every image in CleanStart is digitally signed, ensuring the integrity of the components and securing the deployment process. This guarantees that only trusted and verified images are used, maintaining a high level of security.

Accelerated Deployment: Thanks to CleanStart’s streamlined image structure, deployment times are reduced by up to 80%, allowing development teams to shorten time-to-market and deliver solutions faster.

FIPS Compliance Ready: CleanStart is pre-validated for FIPS compliance and continuously monitored to ensure ongoing adherence. This helps save time, reduce costs, and simplify the process of meeting regulatory standards.

These key features make CleanStart an essential solution for organizations seeking secure, optimized, and compliant container management.

How we are different

Zero-CVE Container Images: Unlike conventional container images that are riddled with critical vulnerabilities requiring constant patching, CleanStart eliminates vulnerabilities at the source. Our images are purpose-built to be zero-CVE, significantly reducing the attack surface. Through rigorous security scanning, dependency verification, and automated build processes, CleanStart images ensure that vulnerabilities are swiftly identified and neutralized, maintaining robust security without the need for reactive fixes.

This proactive approach not only minimizes risk exposure but also saves valuable time and resources for security teams. By combining minimal base images with precise component selection and comprehensive vulnerability management, CleanStart creates inherently secure environments that stay ahead of emerging threats. Organizations can deploy with confidence knowing their containers aren't harboring latent vulnerabilities that could be exploited in production environments.

Optimally Debloated, 80% Lighter Images: CleanStart images are intelligently designed to be 60-80% lighter than conventional container images in the market. This extraordinary optimization begins with our proprietary CleanStart base image of just 12MB, which is fully hardened with STIGs while maintaining complete compatibility with glibc environments. Through smart dependency management, we eliminate unnecessary libraries and packages, retaining only essential components required for your application to function. As a result, CleanStart images pull faster, consume less memory, and significantly reduce infrastructure costs.

The streamlined architecture dramatically improves application performance, ensuring organizations can deploy faster and scale more efficiently without sacrificing security. Our scientific approach to container optimization extends beyond basic size reduction to fundamentally reduce the attack surface, creating a minimal security footprint while maintaining all required functionality. This precision-engineered approach to container design provides both operational benefits and enhanced security posture through the principle of least privilege.

Built-In Compliance for Immediate Deployment: Compliance is no longer an afterthought with CleanStart. Every image is FIPS-compliant as per NIST standards, incorporates OS-level STIGs, and is accompanied by comprehensive SBOM