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Iron Bank

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Iron Bank is the Department of Defense's centralized repository for hardened, approved container images that meet strict security compliance standards for government use.

Summary

Iron Bank is a commercial container-security tool that acts as a centralized repository for hardened, approved container images adhering to strict compliance standards for government use. It is deployed as a service and is intended for entities needing to manage container images specifically for Department of Defense compliance. Its documentation positions it alongside systems managing government-specific deployment artifacts. The tool has seen eleven releases within the tracked period.

Iron Bank is the Department of Defense's centralized repository for hardened, approved container images that meet strict security compliance standards for government use.

How Iron Bank helps

Which container images am I allowed to deploy into a government system?

lists the images that have passed hardening and compliance review, so a workload built from anything outside that set is not approved for use

Has this base image already been hardened to DoD standards, or do I need to start from scratch?

shows whether an approved, pre-hardened version of the image already exists in the repository before anyone rebuilds it from a public source

Where did this image in my deployment actually come from?

ties each image back to a single centralized, approved source rather than a mix of public registries and local builds

Which of my running containers are built on images that were never vetted?

compares deployed images against the approved repository and surfaces the ones sourced from outside it

Am I using the current hardened build of an image, or a version that has since been superseded?

tracks each image against its latest reviewed release in the repository, so a workload running an older build shows up as out of date

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Command line

1 command for Iron Bank, each with where it came from. This tool has no source analysis yet, so there is no option reference and no captured run beside them.

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watching since Aug 16, 2026

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