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Docker Security: Vulnerabilities and Best Practices

Understand key Docker security vulnerabilities such as container breakouts, resource overuse, and untrusted images. Learn best practices including avoiding root access, managing secrets securely, verifying image authenticity, limiting resource usage, and handling Docker socket with caution.

Docker has provided tremendous benefits over traditional hypervisors. However, most of its components are shared with the host kernel. So, if proper security measures are not taken, the host system can be at risk of being compromised and let an attacker take control of it.

In this lesson, we will see some Docker vulnerabilities and best practices along with some ...