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One of the key challenges in container image scanning is understanding where a vulnerability originated in an image, and who can fix it. Image layers allow us to do that, and Aqua’s scanner now allows us to pinpoint discovered vulnerabilities to a specific layer.

Managing known vulnerabilities in container images has been one of the first issues to get the attention of organizations that adopt containers. Knowing what vulnerabilities (CVEs) lurk in your image code is important, but fixing or patching the images that contain vulnerabilities has been a challenge, since it’s not always easy, speedy, or even possible …

Infrastructure protection, sandboxed containers, MicroVM hypervisors– these are interchangeable terms describing emerging technologies to isolate micro-services from their underlying infrastructure. These isolation technologies aim to protect the underlying host that runs containers and functions against malicious escape and breakout attempts into other targets on the same host or on the shared infrastructure. They attempt to provide VM-level isolation …

In support of Amazon’s announcement this week at re:Invent surrounding the new AWS Container Marketplace, we’ve made the Aqua Container Security Platform available for on-demand consumption (pay as you go), via the newly minted AWS Container category in the Marketplace. We have several new listings in the AWS Marketplace, but in this blog I’ll cover …

Istio, Google’s open source project for large scale, containerized application management was released in May 2017 and has undergone rapid development since then, culminating in the landmark 1.0 release in July 2018. In this blog post we will be exploring what Istio is, how it works and how to adopt it. In subsequent articles in …

In the spectrum of deployment options available for cloud native applications, the most widely used option, at least presently, is running containers on VMs that use the Linux operating system (or less frequently, bare-metal servers running Linux).

Containers make it very easy to package and deliver applications, so it’s not surprising that many ISVs (Independent Software Providers) are leading the trend of packaging their software, whether it’s commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) or custom-developed code, as container images. These images are then fed into the enterprise customer’s CI/CD pipeline, and are often treated in …

Recently, IBM researchers weighed in on container isolation, having developed an algorithm for measuring how well it works, and reached the conclusion that “a Docker container with a well crafted seccomp profile (which blocks unexpected system calls) provides roughly equivalent security to a hypervisor.“

A few months ago we launched the Aqua MicroEnforcer, the first solution for providing runtime protection to a container running in Containers-as-a-Service platforms like AWS Fargate or Azure Container Instances. The mechanism I wrote about at the time involved building a protected version of a container image being deployed, by adding the MicroEnforcer executable into …

In a previous post, we explored six tools for storing data for Docker containers. Another challenge in container environments is getting containers to network in a consistent and secure manner – especially as container workloads may appear on different hosts as applications scale out, then disappear when they’re not needed. On a single host, Docker …

Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) are two of the biggest trends in software development. As companies move to release higher quality software at a faster pace, developers and engineers need new approaches to building, testing, and delivering products. As a result, many companies are turning to Docker to build, test, and deploy their applications.

Storage has been a hot topic for as long as containers have been around. According to a survey by Portworx, 26% of IT pros cite persistent storage as the most difficult challenge in adopting containers, and 44% blame inadequate tools as the main reason. Although containers are stateless by design, the need to store data …