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Container Security 101: A Guide to Safe and Efficient Operations

This post is part of a series that provides a preview of https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/, which will be held April 18-21 in Amsterdam. Containers became the de facto standard of software deployments, providing a wide range of advantages such as: Fast deployment

There are different sources where developers can pull base images to build their containers, mostly from public registries like: https://www.docker.com/?utm_content=inline-mention

As risk mitigation, DevOps should consider the use of a minimal Linux base image (like Alpine) or a distro-less container image.

Usually, relying on trusted sources, verified registries and using updated images can be enough, but this is not always the case.