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Yes, but certain things tend to wind up with more security bugs than others, due to attack surface and the like. For instance, you tend to see browser exploits, SSL exploits, and privilege escalation attacks a lot more often than OS-level exploits, or hypervisor vulnerabilities.

It's not that Docker is a gaping security hole, it's just not something I trust as much as the Linux Kernel or Xen. I probably trust it about as much as I trust a well-updated web browser. It's suitable for everyday use, but I don't click the link on the phishing or spam email just to see what happens.




oh sure, I'm not saying Docker provides perfect security.

The point I didn't agree on was the top comment which basically, to me, seemed to be saying "Docker is not a security boundry" because that's not (in my experience) true.

There are a load of companies running Multi-tenant systems using Linux containers, so if they're not a security boundry, a lot of people are going to be having a bad time :)




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