Container Security And Cloud Native Best Practices
Security Boulevard, December 9th, 2022
A container is one standard, standalone unit of software. Its purpose is to package code (plus dependencies) in a way that allows an application to run quickly and reliably, even when changing computing environments.
Containers contain container images. These images are not actually images as in pictures, but layers of files, with the base image (file) being used as the starting point for creating derivative images. This makes the base image the most important one to secure.
There are different types of containers (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and Microsoft Azure), and below you'll read more about their specific best practices of container security.