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Minimal
Significantly smaller images with only the packages required to run your workload.
◷ Smaller attack surface
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Minimal. Secure. Production-ready.
Hardened Container Images
Deploy secure-by-default container images with minimal attack surface, continuous vulnerability scanning, and hardened configurations — ready for production from day one.
The problem
Default images are rarely secure by design.
Most base images come packed with unnecessary packages, outdated libraries, and a large attack surface. Teams spend significant time hardening them manually — or worse, deploy them as-is. Hardened images solve this by providing secure, minimal, continuously maintained foundations.
One operating picture
Secure foundations. Built for production.
MadStack Hardened Images are minimal, continuously scanned, and designed to reduce risk from the first layer of your container stack.
Minimal attack surface
Only essential packages are included. No unnecessary tools, shells, or debug utilities that expand the attack surface.
Continuously hardened
Images are regularly rebuilt, scanned, and updated to remove newly discovered vulnerabilities and outdated packages.
Drop-in ready
Compatible with popular base images and designed as drop-in replacements so teams can adopt them with minimal changes.
✦ What you get
Hardened by design. Ready for production.
Built with security as the default — so your applications start from a trusted, low-risk foundation.
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Scanned
DailyContinuously scanned for vulnerabilities, secrets, and malware with rapid remediation.
◷ Always up to date
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Trusted
Signed, verifiable images that integrate cleanly into your existing CI/CD and policy workflows.
◷ Ready to adopt
Sample image
Evidence your team can trust.
Example of a MadStack Hardened Image — minimal, scanned, and ready for production use.
Image
madstack/node:20-hardened
Status
Production Ready
madstack/node:20-hardened
{
"image": "madstack/node:20-hardened",
"size": "42 MB",
"vulnerabilities": "0 Critical / 0 High",
"status": "Hardened & Signed",
"action": "Ready for production use"
}
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Hardened Images are minimal by design, continuously scanned, and regularly rebuilt to remove unnecessary packages and known vulnerabilities. They provide a secure foundation instead of requiring teams to harden standard images themselves.
Yes. Most Hardened Images are designed as drop-in replacements for popular base images (such as Node, Python, or Alpine-based images) so migration requires minimal changes.
Images are continuously monitored and rebuilt when new vulnerabilities are discovered or when upstream packages receive important security updates.
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