IGEL Managed Containers™ at the Edge with OS 12

Today at IGEL’s Now & Next Conference in Frankfurt, I am excited to share how we are advancing secure innovation at the industrial edge and to give you an early look at what is next for our platform.

Organizations across manufacturing, healthcare, critical infrastructure, and retail are under increasing pressure to deliver new capabilities at the edge, where uptime and risk management are essential. The challenge is clear: how do you bring agility, analytics, and modernization to operational environments, without increasing your attack surface or adding management complexity?

Earlier this year, IGEL introduced the IGEL Managed Hypervisor™. This solution addresses a persistent need – helping organizations run legacy versions of Windows on new, secure hardware, and virtualize PLCs, HMIs, and other essential control systems. It is already helping our customers bridge the gap between operational technology and IT, providing a trusted, compliant, and zero trust-aligned foundation for IT/OT convergence. If you have not seen it, I encourage you to explore our recent thought leadership on trusted, compliant endpoint security for OT environments and why IT/OT convergence is more critical than ever.

But we know the edge is evolving. The next wave of applications, whether analytics, protocol translation, or AI are increasingly delivered as containerized workloads. Yet the format of the application is only part of the story. Our customers tell us they care most about operational trust, centralized control, compliance, and resilience regardless of whether a workload is packaged as a container, a virtual machine, or a traditional app.

This is where IGEL’s Preventative Security Model™ comes into play. It is a security-first philosophy designed to eliminate endpoint attack vectors before they become problems. IGEL OS is immutable and policy-driven, with no writable core, no local data at risk, and a hardware-backed chain of trust validating every boot. Centralized management through our Universal Management Suite gives you fleet-wide policy enforcement and real-time visibility, enabling rapid, compliant innovation without compromise.

The IGEL App Portal expands these capabilities, providing a curated catalog of applications, and soon, containerized workloads, that can be securely deployed to endpoints as business needs evolve. Every addition to your environment, whether a legacy Windows app, a PLC interface, or a new analytics engine remains centrally governed, signed, and controlled.

Today, I am pleased to announce that in the first half of 2026, IGEL will launch a preview program for secure, centrally managed container workloads on IGEL OS. This capability will allow you to deploy and control containerized applications at the edge with the same security, compliance, and operational simplicity you expect from IGEL. Only signed and centrally approved containers will run; TPM-backed trust, endpoint immutability, and unified policy enforcement will remain standard. No new silos, no unmanaged risk.

This managed containers preview program is built for organizations operating at the industrial edge, in healthcare, and across distributed environments.
We’re inviting you – our customers and partners to join us in testing real-world use cases and shaping the roadmap. You will get early access, close engagement with our technical team, and the chance to ensure that your industry’s security and operational requirements are reflected as this capability comes to market. If you are interested in participating in the preview or want to discuss how IGEL’s secure edge platform can help your organization manage the balance between innovation and risk, please connect with us during the event and register for the IGEL Managed Containers Preview Group.

Thank you for joining us at Now & Next, and for being part of IGEL’s journey as we continue to define what is possible – securely – at the edge.