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Securing Docker

By : Scott Gallagher
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Securing Docker

By: Scott Gallagher

Overview of this book

<p>With the rising integration and adoption of Docker containers, there is a growing need to ensure their security.</p> <p>The purpose of this book is to provide techniques and enhance your skills to secure Docker containers easily and efficiently. The book starts by sharing the techniques to configure Docker components securely and explore the different security measures/methods one can use to secure the kernel.</p> <p>Furthermore, we will cover the best practices to report Docker security findings and will show you how you can safely report any security findings you come across. Toward the end, we list the internal and third-party tools that can help you immunize your Docker environment.</p> <p>By the end of this book, you will have a complete understanding of Docker security so you are able to protect your container-based applications.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Securing Docker
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewer

Harald Albers works as a Java developer and security engineer in Hamburg, Germany.

In addition to developing distributed web applications, he also sets up and maintains the build infrastructure, staging, and production environments for these applications.

Most of his work is only possible because of Docker's simple and elegant solutions for the challenges of provisioning, deployment, and orchestration.

He started using Docker and contributing to the Docker project in mid-2014. He is a member of the Docker Governance Advisory Board, 2015-2016.