The future of containerization – unikernels and hardened security
Containerization is still evolving, but the number of organizations adopting containerization techniques has gone up in recent times. While many organizations are aggressively adopting Docker and other container technologies, the downside of these techniques is still in the size of the containers and security concerns.
Currently, Docker images are generally heavy. In an elastic automated environment, where containers are created and destroyed quite frequently, size is still an issue. A larger size indicates more code, and more code means that it is more prone to security vulnerabilities.
The future is definitely in small footprint containers. Docker is working on unikernels, lightweight ...
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