Docker Security Fundamentals

Building containerized applications has revolutionized the process of developing and running microservices. Instead of worrying about underlying system dependencies, container images include all of the necessary components to run an application on any platform, they are much smaller which makes them more portable, and enables simplified autoscaling. Docker is designed to make it easier to build and run distributed Microservice applications, but this design comes with security challenges. There are many different aspects of security when working with Docker images, containers and orchestration. In this class you will learn through lecture and hands-on-labs best practices for securing the Docker host, base image, application images and registry. We will also discuss challenges and solutions to scaling containers in a production deployment.