CrowdSec Guide: Automatic IP Banning for Docker Containers

While CrowdSec is most commonly used as a host-based defense mechanism, the free and open-source cybersecurity solution is also suitable for Docker environments. This tutorial demonstrates how to deploy a minimal yet complete applicative stack using Docker Compose and secure it with CrowdSec.

You will learn how to:

• Automatically ban malevolent IPs from accessing container services
• Manually add/remove and inspect ban decisions
• Monitor CrowdSec’s behavior (via CLI and Dashboards)