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I often read that (docker) containers are not good for security. What are secure methods of creating secure isolated environments to run questionable programs in? (lemmy.ml)

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I've read that standard containers are optimized for developer productivity and not security, which makes sense.

But then what would be ideal to use for security? Suppose I want to isolate environments from each other for security purposes, to run questionable programs or reduce attack surface. What are some secure solutions?

Something without the performance hit of VMs

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[–] dragnucs@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes it is. I've been using it for more than a year now. Works reliably. Has pod support aswel.

[–] piezoelectron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great. I don't know enough to use either but I think I'm going to try lean on podman from the get go. In any case, I know that all podman commands are exactly identical to Docker, such that you can replace, say, docker compose with podman compose and move on with ease.

[–] Guilvareux@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago

With the specific exception of podman compose I completely agree. I haven’t tested it for a while but podman compose has had issues with compose file syntax in my experience. Especially with network configs.

However, I have been using “docker-compose” with podman’s docker compatible socket implementation when necessary, with great success