I’ve read that standard containers are optimized for developer productivity and not security, which makes sense.

But then what would be ideal to use for security? Suppose I want to isolate environments from each other for security purposes, to run questionable programs or reduce attack surface. What are some secure solutions?

Something without the performance hit of VMs

  • Helix 🧬@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Where did you read that and which arguments did the authors make?

    Many times, the configuration of Docker is the issue, e.g. mounting stuff like files from /etc/ or the Docker socket from the outside, using insecure file permissions or running the application as root user.

    If you use rootless Docker or Podman, you already eliminated one of the security risks. The same goes for the other mentioned things.

    What exactly do you mean by “questionable programs”? If you want to run malware, you shouldn’t do so in an environment where it can break out of anything. There’s the possibility of hardware virtualisation which prevents many of the outbreaks possible, but even then, exploits have been found.

    You’re really only secure if you run questionable software on an airgapped computer with no speakers and never run anything else on it.

    What would be your use case?