Red Hat’s OpenClaw maintainer just made enterprise Claw deployments a lot safer
Red Hat has introduced a new open source tool called Tank OS to enhance the safety of deploying OpenClaw agents. Developed by principal software engineer Sally O'Malley, Tank OS aims to simplify management for both power users and IT professionals. The tool utilizes Podman containers to ensure secure and isolated operation of OpenClaw on various systems.
- ▪Tank OS is designed to make deploying and managing OpenClaw agents safer and easier.
- ▪The tool allows users to run multiple instances of OpenClaw without sharing credentials.
- ▪Sally O'Malley, the maintainer of OpenClaw, emphasizes the importance of technical experience for users.
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On Tuesday, Red Hat principal software engineer Sally O’Malley released a new open source tool called Tank OS to make it easier to deploy and manage OpenClaw agents more safely. “This was a fun project that I put together on the weekend that I knew would be a really good fit for AI and where we’re going,” she told TechCrunch, adding that she wanted to give it “to the masses.” Tank OS is geared toward power users looking to run OpenClaw on their own computers and toward IT pros managing fleets of corporate OpenClaw agents. It makes OpenClaw safer and easier to maintain en masse. Countless people, companies, and startups are already inventing better ways to work with OpenClaw — the open source project that installs an AI agent on a local computer.
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