Can I haz non-privileged containers?
In this talk, we will look at the problems associated with running Docker containers with privileged status and some solutions to how you can harden your Docker-based security. Check it out!
To understand the problem, we will take a quick look at how user and group isolation works in Unix and how this translates into a container. We will also look at how user namespaces work in Docker and how simple it is to build a non-root Docker container. In addition to all of this, we will look at some simple tools which can automatically detect these problems and notify you if they occur.
Takeaways:
How users and groups work in Unix
Security problems with running container processes as root
Understanding of container namespaces and user mappings
How to build a non-Root container
Edge cases where Root containers may be required
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Can I haz non-privileged containers?
Michael Hausenblas
Michael is a Developer Advocate for Go, Kubernetes, and OpenShift at Red Hat where he helps appops to build and operate distributed services. His background is in large-scale data processing and container orchestration and he's experienced in advocacy and standardization at W3C and IETF. Before Red Hat, Michael worked at Mesosphere, MapR and in two research institutions in Ireland and Austria. He contributes to open source software (mainly using Go), blogs and hangs out on Twitter too much.
Nic Jackson
Nic Jackson is a developer advocate and polyglot programmer at HashiCorp. He is the author of Building Microservices in Go, which examines the best patterns and practices for building microservices with the Go programming language. In his spare time, Nic coaches and mentors at Coder Dojo, teaches at Women Who Go and GoBridge, and speaks about and evangelizes good coding practice, process, and technique.