There was a recent post about whether to enable ufw and it made me ask: how protected I am from a rogue docker container? I have a single server with 15-20 docker containers running at any given time. Should one get hacked or be malicious from the get go, are there (hopefully easy to implement for an armchair sysadmin) best practices to mitigate such an event? Thanks!
The people who read the source code of all their Docker containers and especially understand everything in there are probably around 1%.
For this sub maybe. It doesn’t take to much to look at what you are copy and pasting.
It’s not limited to what you copy and paste. One of my containers has a pretty long starter script written by the container maintainer. That is needed because the application doesn’t have an official Docker version and the starter script takes care of all the necessary work arounds to get the app running inside a container. There could be something malicious in there I don’t know about, if I don’t read the whole starter script, which is probably in a language I don’t understand well.
Even more complicated : I could have been studying the starter script and made the decision it’s fine and the author trustworthy, so I pull the container image with the tag “v1. 0” every few months a new version gets released, I take a look at the changelog, if no braking changes are mentioned I pull tag v1. 1 and replace my existing container. At some point the maintainer stops mainting the container and hands over the Repository to someone else. This person unfortunately now places malicious code in the starter script and releases an update. If I would now pull that new container image I now have a rougue container.