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Developing and Maintaining Secure and Reliable Software in the Real World Docker makes it easy for developers to package up and push out application changes, and spin up run-time environments on their own. With Docker, developers can make their own decisions on how to configure and package applications. But this also means that they can make simple but dangerous mistakes that will leave the system unsafe without anyone noticing until it is too late. Fortunately, there are some good tools that can catch many of these problems early, as part of your build pipelines and run-time configuration checks. Toni de la Fuente maintains a helpful list of Docker security and auditing tools here Unfortunately, many of the open source projects in this list have been shelved or orphaned. So, I want to put together a short list of the essential open source tools that are available today to help you secure your Docker environment. As part of your build process and continuous run-time checks, it is important that you enforce safe and consistent configuration defaults lists over 100 recommendations and best practices for hardening the host configuration and Docker daemon configuration (including Swarm configuration settings), file permissions rules, container images and build file management, container runtime settings, and operations checks Docker containers against this hardening guide (although the tests are organized a bit differently – the Swarm checks are all run together in a separate section for example). Docker Bench is updated for each release of the CIS benchmark guide, which is updated with each release of Docker, although there tends to be a brief lag. Docker Bench ships as a small container which runs with high privilege, and executes a set of tests against all containers that it can find. Tests return PAS* or WARN (clear fail) status, or INFO (for findings that need to be manually reviewed to see if they match expected results). NOTEs are printed for manual checks that need to be done separately.