Deployment times for container clones may be reduced by implementing some examples described herein. In one example, a system can receive a container snapshot including runtime data for a software service executed inside a container at a prior point in time. The system can deploy a template container from the container snapshot at least in part by assigning a memory region to the template container and loading the runtime data from container snapshot into the memory region. The system can freeze the template container to prevent modification of the runtime data in the memory region. While the template container is frozen, the system can deploy a container clone using the runtime data in the memory region, such that the container clone includes the software service in at least a substantially ready state by default based on the runtime data.