CST Variants Overview

The Containerized Security Toolkit provides purpose-built variants for different security operations. Each variant is available as cst-<variant>:amd for x86_64 systems and cst-<variant>:arm for ARM64 systems.

Variant Selection Guide

Choose your variant based on primary use case:

• General: Basic security operations or as a base for building custom images
• Cloud: Cloud security assessments and operations
• Dev: Security tools and application development (WIP)
• Netsec: Network security testing and monitoring (WIP)
• Rice: All round security operations with CLI Productivity Suite for shell interface

Each variant follows CST's core conventions while providing specialized capabilities for its target use case.