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You expect people to read a book to find out your perspective? Do you have cliff notes on why using isolation mode doesn’t provide a security boundary?


Containers provide resource isolation using a shared kernel but are not intended to be used in hostile multitenancy scenarios.

A key feature of OS virtualisation is the strong segmentation boundary between

1. Guests

2. Guests and the hypervisor.

For this reason, VMs are seen to provide a stronger security boundary than containers and are used in preference where that aspect is critical owing to environment, multi-tenancy, business context.

See also https://searchcloudsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/VMs-vs-contai...


So again, what about isolation mode? I don’t know what this is called in the linux world but in windows this feature does exactly this. Still a shared kernel but a far cry from what your explaining.




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