Why technical teams choose Stella Ops
Most teams already have scanners, CI, and deployment tooling. Stella Ops adds the missing control plane that turns those tools into one verifiable release process.
Who this is not for
If you are Kubernetes only and already run a mature evidence chain from build to production, Stella may be unnecessary. It is built for Docker and OCI estates outside Kubernetes that need stricter release control.
Four capabilities that remove release ambiguity
Release orchestration
Promotions, approvals, freezes, and rollbacks across non-Kubernetes targets with digest-first identity.
Evidence backed policy gates
Reachability, VEX, and policy decisions are tied to artifact digests and captured for later verification.
Deterministic replay
Re-run historical decisions with frozen inputs and verify that verdicts are identical.
Sovereign and offline operation
Runs inside your boundary. No forced external control plane, with crypto profile options for regional requirements.
What changes in daily operations
Without Stella
- S Hundreds of CVEs with unclear operational priority
- S Manual cross checks across scanners, tickets, and approvals
- S Promotion decisions stored in chat and email
- S Limited ability to prove why a release was allowed
With Stella
- S Reachability and VEX reduce noise to actionable risk
- S Policy gate computes allow or block with explicit rationale
- S Promotion and approval recorded against immutable digests
- S Signed Decision Capsule exported for audit and replay
Core capabilities you can expect
Decision Capsules
Each promotion stores digest, SBOM, reachability evidence, policy inputs, approvals, and signatures in one package.
VEX-aware workflow
Use VEX statements during policy evaluation and export downstream rationale in standard formats.
Open evidence formats
Evidence remains inspectable through open standards such as SBOM, VEX, DSSE, and in toto style attestations.
Dependency visibility
Service and component mapping helps teams prioritize fixes by deployment impact.
Fast gate execution
Cached analysis and delta workflows keep policy checks quick enough for daily delivery.
Incremental adoption
Start in observe mode and enforce stricter gates per environment as teams are ready.