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Container Hardening Basics

Secure your containers

Hardening containers involves using minimal base images, removing build tools, running as non-root, scanning images for vulnerabilities, and locking down runtime profiles with seccomp and AppArmor.

Slim the Image

Use minimal bases, multi-stage builds, and pin versions.

Drop Privilege

Run as non-root, set read-only filesystems, limit capabilities.

Scan and Enforce

Scan images, sign them, and apply seccomp/AppArmor profiles.

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