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Jonathan Baier
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Jonathan Baier

Jonathan Baier is an emerging technology leader living in Brooklyn, New York. He has had a passion for technology since an early age. When he was 14 years old, he was so interested in the family computer (an IBM PCjr) that he pored over the several hundred pages of BASIC and DOS manuals. Then, he taught himself to code a very poorly-written version of Tic-Tac-Toe. During his teenage years, he started a computer support business. Throughout his life, he has dabbled in entrepreneurship. He currently works as Senior Vice President of Cloud Engineering and Operations for Moody's corporation in New York.
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Basics of container security


Container security is a deep subject area and in itself can fill its own book. Having said this, we will cover some of the high-level concerns and give a starting point to think about this area.

In the A brief overview of containers section of Chapter 1, Introduction to Kubernetes, we looked at some of the core isolation features in the Linux kernel that enable container technology. Understanding the details of how containers work is the key to grasping the various security concerns in managing them.

A good paper to dive deeper is NCC's Whitepaper, Understanding and Hardening Linux Containers (you can refer to more details about this in point 1 in the References section at the end of the chapter). In section 7, the paper explores the various attack vectors of concern for container deployments, which I will summarize (you can refer to more details about this in point 1 in the References section at the end of the chapter).

Keeping containers contained 

One of the most...

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Jonathan Baier

Jonathan Baier is an emerging technology leader living in Brooklyn, New York. He has had a passion for technology since an early age. When he was 14 years old, he was so interested in the family computer (an IBM PCjr) that he pored over the several hundred pages of BASIC and DOS manuals. Then, he taught himself to code a very poorly-written version of Tic-Tac-Toe. During his teenage years, he started a computer support business. Throughout his life, he has dabbled in entrepreneurship. He currently works as Senior Vice President of Cloud Engineering and Operations for Moody's corporation in New York.
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