Understanding SELinux-secured virtualization
Virtualization is a core concept that plays a part in many infrastructural service designs. Ever since its inception in the early 1970s as a means of isolating workloads and abstracting hardware dependencies, virtualization implementations have grown tremendously. When we look at infrastructure service offerings today, we quickly realize that many cloud providers would be out of service if they could not rely on the benefits and virtues of virtualization.
One of the properties that virtualization offers is isolation, which SELinux can support and augment quite nicely.
Introducing virtualization
When we look at virtualization, we look at the abstraction layers it provides to hide certain resource views (such as hardware or processing power). Virtualization contributes to the development of more efficient hardware usage (which results in better cost control), centralized views on resources and systems, more flexibility in the number...
