Volt Documentation

The unified container and VM platform from ArmoredGate.

Quick install: curl -sSL https://get.armoredgate.com/volt | sh

Install Volt and run your first workload in under 2 minutes.

How Volt unifies containers and VMs under one platform.

Complete command reference for the Volt CLI.

Landlock LSM, seccomp, capability dropping, and VM isolation.

Creating, configuring, and managing Volt containers.

MicroVMs with VoltVisor — sub-millisecond boot times.

Convert Dockerfiles and map commands to Volt equivalents.

Why Volt?

Feature	Docker	Volt
Container startup	~500ms	<1ms
Image size (nginx)	~187MB	~23MB
VM support	None	VoltVisor microVMs
Root daemon	Required	None
Security model	Optional AppArmor/SELinux	Landlock LSM + seccomp
Storage	overlay2 layers	VoltScope CAS (block-level dedup)