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5 Practical Tips and Tricks for Secure Container Deployment

Containerization adoption is spreading fast across industries and is set to accelerate more rapidly by the year 2022. Most enterprises are ditching their existing monoliths in favor of container-based stacks as it offers a way of packaging applications in an easily portable, software-defined environment. When coupled with an orchestration tool, such as Kubernetes Security or Docker Swarm, application containerization also offers other benefits, including low cost of infrastructure operations, flexible routing between services, and scaling solutions on the micro-service level. As with any other technological advancement in application development, containerization brings up another set of security challenges for the IT department to take care of. Emerging container security risks mainly include kernel-level threats, which amplify any existing vulnerabilities. However, most of these risks can be reduced significantly if managed early during the deployment process. In that case, le...