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ButlerianJihadtoday at 7:14 AM1 replyview on HN

Containers are a convenience boundary and they increase complexity of your risk assessments.

It is easy for security scanners to scan a Linux system, but will they inspect your containers, and snaps, and flatpaks, and VMs? It is easy for DevOps to ssh into your Linux server, but can they also get logged in to each container, and do useful things? Your patches and all dependencies are up-to-date on your server, but those containers are still dragging around legacy dependencies, by design. Is your backup system aware of containers and capable of creating backup images or files, that are suitable for restoring back to service?


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necovektoday at 8:23 AM

Security scanners already support most container and VM image formats in widespread use.

Does this increase complexity? Yes, it does. Is it worth the cost? Depends on each individual case IMO.

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