Learning Docker - Second Edition

The prominent security-fulfilment features of containers

Linux containers, especially Docker containers, have a few interesting security-fulfilling features innately.

As discussed, Docker uses a host of security barricades to stop breaking out. That is, if one security mechanism gets broken, other mechanisms quickly come in the way of containers being hacked. There are a few mainline zones that are to be examined when evaluating the security implications of Docker containers. As emphasized previously, Docker brings a variety of isolation capabilities to containerized applications to sharply increase their security. Most of them are made available out of the box. The policy addition, annulment, and amendment capabilities at granular level ...