What is Tank OS for OpenClaw?

Tank OS is an open-source tool by Red Hat principal engineer Sally O'Malley that packages OpenClaw as a bootable system image with agents sandboxed in isolated rootless Podman containers on Fedora Linux.

Sally O'Malley, a Red Hat principal software engineer and OpenClaw core maintainer who helps creator Peter Steinberger decide which features and bugs get prioritized.

How does Tank OS improve OpenClaw security?

Each agent runs in an isolated container with its own credentials. No instance can access the host machine or other agents, addressing the fundamental lack of process-level isolation in vanilla OpenClaw.

Is Tank OS for individual users or enterprises?

Both. It targets power users running OpenClaw on their own computers and IT pros managing fleets of corporate OpenClaw agents at enterprise scale.

Where can I get Tank OS?

Tank OS is available at github.com/LobsterTrap/tank-os under an open-source license.

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Red Hat principal engineer and OpenClaw maintainer Sally O'Malley released Tank OS — a bootable system image that sandboxes OpenClaw agents inside rootless Podman containers on Fedora Linux. Each agent runs isolated with its own credentials. Targets IT pros managing fleets of corporate OpenClaw agents. TechCrunch and Decrypt covered the launch.

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A container runtime that automatically sandboxes every OpenClaw agent in an isolated environment

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