The best practices for container security

There are robust and resilient security solutions to boost the confidence of providers, as well as users, toward embracing the containerization journey with all the clarity and alacrity. In this section, we provide a number of tips, best practices, and key guidelines collected from different sources in order to enable security administrators and consultants to tightly secure Docker containers. Essentially, if containers are running in a multitenant system and you are not using the proven security practices, then there are definite dangers lurking around the security front. As mentioned previously, security breaches can happen at different service levels and hence, security architects need to figure out what can go wrong and prescribe proven and pioneering security-preserving methods. Security visionaries and luminaries advise the following easy-to-understand-and-follow practices to reap the originally envisaged benefits of containers:

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