Software is deemed to be production ready when it is secure. Security is highly important when dealing with operating systems, which is clearly what LXC provides using system-level containers. The basic idea of Linux containers is to share resources with isolated environments, and this raises a question about security. Is the isolation safe and is the resource sharing fair? When LXC started, many security considerations went unaddressed, but as LXC has evolved, many security features have been added, and the latest releases of LXC are considered secure based on ...
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7. Containers and Security
Senthil Kumaran S.1
(1)Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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