Secure your applications and development environments with Docker and Kubernetes

Key Features

Description

Through this book, we will introduce the DevOps tools ecosystem and the main containers orchestration tools through an introduction to some platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and OpenShift.

Among other topics, both good practices will be addressed when constructing the Docker images as well as best security practices to be applied at the level of the host in which those containers are executed, from Docker's own daemon to the rest of the components that make up its technological stack.

We will review the topics such as static analysis of vulnerabilities on Docker images, the signing of images with Docker Content Trust and their subsequent publication in a Docker Registry will be addressed. Also, we will review the security state in Kubernetes.

In the last section, we will review container management and administration open source tools for IT organizations that need to manage and monitor container-based applications, reviewing topics such as monitoring, administration, and networking in Docker.

What will you learn

Who this book is for

This book covers different techniques to help developers improve DevOps and container security skills and can be useful for people who are involved in software development and want to learn how Docker works from a security point of view. It is recommended that readers have the knowledge about UNIX commands and they work with commands terminal.