In many ways, the advent of containers have helped speed up the modern software delivery lifecycle. This new way of delivering software has added a lot of new vectors that should be analyzed from a security perspective. Researchers warn that there has been a 380% increase of data theft breaches and 62% of intrusions involve the software supply chain.

We’ll discuss modern container security and some of the HashiCorp tools like Packer, Terraform, Consul, Vault and Nomad that help simplify workflows like:

• Container Image Creation
• Minimal containers
• Container Image Scanning
• Container Encryption
• Container Signing
• Policy Enforcement