Securing and monitoring containers in enterprise environments
All Boxed Up
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A recent flurry of activity in the container space raises several interesting questions about security among a number of operational aspects in the enterprise environment.
Docker doubtlessly still reigns supreme in the container run-time space, but various industry projects mean that the Docker stronghold will almost certainly shift in one form or another over the coming months. The recent release of Docker Enterprise Edition (Docker EE) [1] shows that this fact hasn't escaped Docker, and to my mind, they should quite rightly take advantage of their market share and fully monetize their current standing.
The Docker EE offering advises you to meld all parts of your containerization and orchestration workflow together using one vendor to avoid sticking pieces of duct tape between the components to integrate them. In their words: "An application-centric platform, Docker EE is designed [to] accelerate and secure across the entire software supply chain, from development to production running on any infrastructure" [1]. More easily digestible details can be seen in Figure 1.
Just One Moment
My interest from a DevSecOps perspective is security, and in Figure 1 you can see that image scanning for common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) [2] is indeed bundled with the EE flavor of Docker. However, that is not so for the less feature filled Docker Community Edition (Docker CE) [3], which is promoted for developers and small teams. However, it is thankfully available for free as a preview for a period and for those using a paid plan for private repositories. As you can see in Figure 2, it's highly efficacious.
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