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Practical LXC and LXD: Linux Containers for Virtualization and Orchestration
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Practical LXC and LXD: Linux Containers for Virtualization and Orchestration

by Senthil Kumaran S.
August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
167 pages
3h 39m
English
Apress
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© Senthil Kumaran S. 2017

Senthil Kumaran S., Practical LXC and LXD, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3024-4_7

7. Containers and Security

Senthil Kumaran S.1 

(1)Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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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