Tag: containers

Trivy, Grype, and Docker Scout go head-to-head on speed, CVE coverage, CI integration, and cost. Pick the right scanner for your home lab or pipeline.

systemd-nspawn ships on every modern Linux box and most sysadmins have never touched it. Here's when this no-daemon, no-Docker-socket container runtime is actually the right tool.

Distroless containers are tiny, secure, and loved by security teams, until you need to debug one at 2 AM. Here's when Google distroless actually pays off vs when it's just container hipster points.

Docker Desktop got expensive and RAM-hungry. Colima is the lean alternative. OrbStack is the one everyone's actually using now. Here's the honest breakdown for Mac developers.

A Software Bill of Materials tells you exactly what's in your software. Syft generates one, Grype scans it for CVEs. Together they're your supply chain paper trail.

Pulling unscanned images onto your server is a gamble. Trivy finds the CVEs. Cosign proves the image hasn't been swapped out. Here's how to add both to your workflow.

Falco watches every syscall your containers make and screams when something sketchy happens. Like someone exec'ing a shell inside your nginx container at 3am.

You're pulling container images from strangers on the internet. Trivy scans them for CVEs. Cosign proves they haven't been tampered with. Use both.

Run Docker containers without root privileges, here's the security difference, the install steps, and the gotchas nobody tells you about.

Docker networking confuses everyone at first. Here's the practical breakdown of bridge, host, overlay, and macvlan, with real Compose examples.

ctop and lazydocker beat docker stats for live container monitoring. Keybinds, install options, multi-host setups, and tracking a memory leak with each.

Stop letting Docker Hub throttle your CI/CD. Run Harbor for RBAC, Trivy scanning, image replication, and a real UI, on infrastructure you control.