Azure Security Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for Defending Your Enterprise Environment

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7. Workload Protection – Containers

Karl Ots¹  

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Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

 

In this chapter, we discuss protecting container workloads in Azure. After reading this chapter, you will be able to select and implement appropriate controls for securing container workloads as part of your organization’s security policy framework.

Containers can be hosted in multiple services in Azure, collectively referred to as container-as-a-service services. For the purposes of this book, I consider App Service for containers a platform-as-a-service service, as it includes further and opinionated web services ...