AlphaBravo builds AI-first platform engineering for regulated and disconnected environments. Secure automation, compliance evidence, and software supply chain integrity across cloud, on-prem, edge, and air-gapped networks.
Multi-cloud infrastructure management with embedded policy, drift detection, and an AI Operations Copilot for risk, incident, and compliance review.
Automated container hardening, signing, and attestation. Submit any image, receive it back with zero known CVEs, a full SBOM, and cryptographic provenance. No rip-and-replace.
Propeller delivers hands-on training for containers and Kubernetes. Instructor-led bootcamps, Rancher ecosystem tracks, and lab-based learning built for operators in regulated environments. On-site, remote, or self-paced.
Most platform tools assume a stable internet connection, a consistent cloud provider, and a compliance team that has time to wait. Mission-critical and regulated buyers don't have that luxury.
AlphaBravo designs everything from the ground up for low-bandwidth, air-gapped, and disconnected operations. Compliance evidence is generated automatically. Audit trails are built-in. Security is never an afterthought.
Delivered tactical platform-as-a-service automation for a Navy lab, enabling repeatable deployment of secure Kubernetes infrastructure and governed operations in disconnected conditions.
Integrated automated container hardening, signing, and SBOM generation into delivery pipelines supporting afloat system applications, improving vulnerability posture and audit readiness without changing developer workflows.
Delivered hands-on training for operators and engineers covering container fundamentals and Kubernetes operations, tailored for regulated environments and mission execution constraints.
Talk to our engineers. No sales deck required.
Three products designed to work independently or together across the full lifecycle of secure software delivery.
Pioneer gives platform teams a single control plane for AWS, Azure, and GCP. Every deployment runs through hardened, versioned templates with policy baked in. Drift detection runs continuously. The AI Operations Copilot surfaces risk, predicts failures, and generates compliance evidence without external API calls.
Ghost accepts any container image and returns it hardened, cryptographically signed, and ready for regulated deployment. No new base OS. No distro migration. No engineering overhead. Your teams continue pulling the images they know. Ghost handles the security.
Propeller delivers hands-on training for containers and Kubernetes. Instructor-led bootcamps, Rancher ecosystem tracks, and lab-based learning built for operators in regulated environments. Delivered on-site, remote, or self-paced.
Pioneer, Ghost, and Propeller are designed to integrate. Ask us about the full platform engagement.
Multi-cloud infrastructure management with embedded policy, drift detection, full auditability, and an AI Operations Copilot built for operators who can't afford surprises.
AWS, Azure, and GCP from a single control plane. Unified workflows across providers. No cloud-specific tooling sprawl.
Security controls embedded in templates. Every deployment validated before it runs. No post-deployment scramble.
Continuous monitoring identifies configuration drift the moment it happens. Automated alerts. Optional auto-remediation.
Every action logged: who, what, when. Searchable, exportable audit trails that satisfy auditors and incident reviewers alike.
Hardened, versioned templates encode best practices. Teams deploy consistent infrastructure every time, in any environment.
Complex infrastructure operations presented in a clear interface. Reduced training time. Deployable without deep cloud expertise.
Pioneer's AI Copilot is a multi-model architecture that operates offline. Assess risk, predict failures, explain incidents, and generate compliance evidence summaries without sending data to external APIs.
Our engineers will walk you through a deployment scenario matched to your stack.
Ghost takes any container image and returns it hardened, signed, and attestable. No new base OS. No rip-and-replace. No engineering overhead. Submit. Receive. Deploy.
Dozens. Sometimes hundreds. Your scanner lights up red. Your compliance team blocks the release. Your engineers spend days manually patching images they didn't build. Next week, new CVEs drop, and you repeat the process.
Ghost hardens your existing images, signs them cryptographically, generates a full SBOM and SLSA provenance, and delivers them through a registry your team pulls from the same way they always have. Drop-in replacement. Nothing else changes.
Full SBOM and provenance. Cryptographic signature. The foundation for all secure container operations.
All known vulnerabilities patched using native package managers. Same compatibility, zero known CVEs.
Unnecessary packages stripped. Only what the application needs to run. Smaller footprint.
AI-assisted remediation targeting complete CVE elimination. The highest level of hardening available.
FIPS 140-3 validated cryptography and DISA STIG-aligned hardening for federal workloads.
Every hardened image ships with audit-ready documentation mapped to compliance frameworks. Not checkbox PDFs. Evidence-backed control mappings tied to what was actually done to each image, with cryptographic proof.
| Chainguard | Docker Hardened | Ghost | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Approach | Rebuild on Wolfi | Official variants only | Hardens your images |
| Migration effort | High | Medium | None |
| SBOM | Yes | Enterprise only | All tiers |
| Provenance | Yes | Limited | All tiers |
| Custom images | Limited | No | Any image |
| Pricing | Contact sales | Contact sales | Transparent tiers |
Start a pilot with your existing image list. No commitments, no rip-and-replace.
Propeller delivers hands-on training for containers and Kubernetes. Instructor-led bootcamps, Rancher ecosystem tracks, and lab-based learning built for operators in regulated environments. Delivered on-site, remote, or self-paced.
Two-day instructor-led bootcamp. Covers Docker from first principles to production-grade workflows. Designed for engineers and operators with limited container experience.
Core cluster operations and workload management. Instructor-led with hands-on labs. For engineers moving from containers to orchestrated environments.
Complex topics for experienced Kubernetes operators. Covers IaC, multi-cluster operations, migration tooling, and security hardening for regulated environments.
Deployment, fleet management, and migration strategies for the Rancher platform. Covers RKE2, K3s, Fleet GitOps, and paths from legacy systems including OpenShift and Tanzu.
Every lab in the Propeller catalog is available on GitHub. Fork it. Run it in your environment. Build on it. Investing in operator skills delivers measurable results.
"We believe that investing in training not only benefits individuals but also delivers tangible results for businesses, enabling them to stay competitive in a dynamic marketplace." -- Chad Serino, AlphaBravo
View on GitHub →Private bootcamps available for government and regulated-industry teams with custom lab environments.
Full-lifecycle platform engineering from supply chain security through edge operations. Built for organizations where failure isn't recoverable.
Unified control planes across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Template-driven deployment with policy enforcement at every stage.
Full platform function without internet connectivity. Sync-on-connect for edge nodes. Digital twin support for SIPR/NIPR environments.
Multi-cluster fleet management. RKE2, K3s, and upstream Kubernetes. Migration from OpenShift, Tanzu, and other distributions.
Declarative, repeatable deployments. Push once, deploy everywhere. Full audit trail from commit to production.
SBOM generation, SLSA provenance, and Cosign signatures on every artifact. Tamper-evident delivery from build to deploy.
Zero-CVE container delivery. STIG-aligned hardening paths. Cryptographic attestation for FedRAMP, CMMC, and regulated deployments.
Controls mapped to NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, CMMC, SOC 2, and PCI-DSS. Evidence packages generated at runtime, not assembled by hand.
Network segmentation, mutual TLS, workload identity, and least-privilege access embedded in platform templates.
Pre-deployment risk scoring. Automated review of configuration changes against security baselines before they are applied.
Pattern analysis across deployment history. Surfaces likely failure modes before they become incidents.
Multi-model support with no external API dependency for core functionality. Runs in air-gapped and disconnected environments.
Architecture through production deployment. Embedded engineering support for regulated and defense environments.
Structured migration paths from VMware, OpenShift, and on-prem datacenter to modern, cloud-native platforms.
Hands-on container and Kubernetes training for platform teams. Private bootcamps, custom lab environments, and certification prep.
Our engineers are direct. Describe the environment and the constraint. We'll tell you what applies.
Real past performance and representative engagements. Names and details generalized where required to protect program confidentiality.
Delivered tactical platform-as-a-service automation for a Navy lab, enabling repeatable deployment of secure Kubernetes infrastructure and governed operations in disconnected conditions.
Repeatable, policy-validated infrastructure deployments in fully air-gapped conditions. Operators gained a governed platform they could own and extend without external dependencies.
Integrated automated container hardening, signing, and SBOM generation into delivery pipelines supporting afloat system applications, improving vulnerability posture and audit readiness without changing developer workflows.
Pipeline-native security with zero workflow disruption. Every artifact shipped with cryptographic attestation and a machine-readable SBOM. Audit readiness built in, not bolted on.
Delivered hands-on training for operators and engineers covering container fundamentals and Kubernetes operations, tailored for regulated environments and mission execution constraints.
Operators left with practical, applied skills for running containerized workloads in constrained environments. Instruction built around real mission scenarios, not generic cloud examples.
Describe the constraint and the mission. We'll tell you how we'd approach it.
AlphaBravo is an AI-first platform engineering firm headquartered in Frederick, Maryland. We build products and services for regulated, disconnected, and defense environments because that is where the hard problems live.
Most platform engineering companies optimize for the easiest environments. We optimize for the hardest. Air-gapped. Low-bandwidth. Regulated. Disconnected. The teams that work in these environments don't need abstraction layers. They need tools that actually work when connectivity is unreliable, when auditors are waiting, and when failure carries real consequences.
AlphaBravo builds products like Pioneer and Ghost because we've been the operators who needed them. We train through Propeller because we've hired the engineers who didn't have access to this training. We operate as an SDVOSB because this community matters to us.
We tell clients what we see, including when the answer is not what they wanted to hear. Useful honesty over polished ambiguity.
Tools are only as good as the people who run them. We design for the operator working a night shift, not the architect in the slide deck.
Security claims require proof. We build systems that generate cryptographic evidence automatically rather than asking teams to trust assertions.
Training materials, labs, and foundational tooling live on GitHub. Closed platforms slow the community. Open platforms build it.
Open roles in engineering, sales, and federal program management.
Tell us what you're dealing with. Our engineers will respond directly. No SDR, no qualification form, no pitch deck.
We respond to every inquiry within one business day. For federal and defense program inquiries, include your organization and the nature of your requirement for faster routing.
Reference for the visual design system used across all AlphaBravo properties.