The hardened container market has been heating up with venture money and startups, but Java platform provider BellSoft thinks its eight years of building Java runtimes gives it something others don’t have: expertise in what’s actually running inside those secured containers.
The company used the KubeCon conference in Atlanta last November to launch its BellSoft Hardened Images, betting it can stand out in a space where Chainguard pioneered the approach, and startups are now piling in. BellSoft’s angle is that it’s not just wrapping…

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