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[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 12 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Oof. I'm anxious that folks are going to get the wrong idea here.

While OCI does provide security benefits, it is not a part of a healthly security architecture.

If you see containers advertised on a security architecture diagram, be alarmed.

If a malicious user gets terminal access inside a container, it is nice that there's a decent chance that they won't get further.

But OCI was not designed to prevent malicious actors from escaping containers.

It is not safe to assume that a malicious actor inside a container will be unable to break out.

Don't get me wrong, your point stands: Security loves it when we use containers.

I just wish folks would stop treating containers as "load bearing" in their security plans.

[-] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

I've tried making this argument before and people never seem to agree. I think Google claims their Kubernetes is actually more secure than traditional VMs, but how true that really is I have no idea. Unfortunately though there are already things we depend upon for security that are probably less secure than most container platforms, like ordinary unix permissions or technologies like AppArmour and SELinux.

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