Containers are a great way to deploy and isolate application resources but they can fall short when it comes to security isolation. How do you improve the security of a container while maintaining the flexible and dynamic resource usage of a container? There are many options for sandbox containers but which is right for you?
In this talk we will explore gVisor sandbox runtime in depth. gVisor is a unique open-source sandbox runtime that allows you to run unmodified applications in containers with a higher level of isolation and low overhead. It implements the OCI runtime specification and integrates well with containerd and Kubernetes. In this talk I will dive into the container security model and use cases for sandbox pods. I will discuss various approaches and their tradeoffs before diving into the architecture of gVisor and how it differs from virtual machine based sandboxes.