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The containers still run an OS, have proprietary application code on them, and have memory that probably contains other user’s data in it. Not saying it’s likely, but containers don’t really fix much in the way of gaining privileged access to steal information.

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That’s why it’s containers… in containers

It’s like wearing 2 helmets. If 1 helmet is good, imagine the protection of 2 helmets!

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So is running it on actual hardware basically rawdoggin?

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Wow what an analogy lol

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6 points

What if those helmets are watermelon helmets

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Then two would still be better than one 😉

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The OS in a container is usually pretty barebones though. Great containers usually use distroless base images. https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless

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Ah, so there is something even more barebones than Alpine

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Sure, there’s also the scratch image, which is entirely empty… So if your app is just a single statically linked binary, your entire container contents can be a single binary.

The busybox image is also more barebones than alpine, but still has a couple of basic tools.

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