Comprehensive Guide to Securing Linux Containers in Microservices

Containers are considered to be a standard way of deploying these microservices to the cloud. Containers are better than virtual machines in almost all ways except security, which may be the main barrier to their widespread adoption.

This article will provide a better understanding of container security and available techniques to secure them.

A Linux container can be defined as a process or a set of processes running in the userspace that is/are isolated from the rest of the system by different kernel tools.