Containers and Orchestrators are being rapidly adopted worldwide due to the advantages they provide. But so has risen the cyber attacks on the same. With the rise in recent vulnerabilities like log4j and pwnkit there’s an ever more demanding need to enforce security in containers.

Keeping things simple and minimal is not just beneficial from a resource cost perspective but also reduces the attack surface which is a huge deal for securing your workloads helping protect against both known and unknown attacks.

This talk will be about how can one choose to be a minimalist about their workloads and how it will help you prevent attacks from the future. We will go from choosing the right node images, to reducing dependencies in our containers and finally restricting access at runtime to both entities outside and inside of your containers.