Case Study: Red Hat achieves DevSecOps speed and container security for the DoD with Anchore

How Anchore and Red Hat teamed up to build a DevSecOps pipeline for the Department of Defense

Red Hat, working in the demanding U.S. Department of Defense environment, needed a way to deliver software faster without sacrificing security, compliance, or consistency across on-prem, cloud, and edge deployments. Its challenge was replacing slow, waterfall-style release cycles and lengthy ATO timelines with a modern DevSecOps approach suited to mission-critical systems.

Anchore helped Red Hat and the USAF implement a hardened container pipeline for the DoD DevSecOps Platform, using Anchore policy checks alongside OpenSCAP on Red Hat OpenShift to validate and secure container images before they reached Iron Bank. The result was an automated, repeatable process that supported Continuous ATO, reduced approval timelines from roughly 9–12 months, and enabled hardened containers to be consumed in minutes rather than months.

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