How to Secure Docker Containers with a Read-Only Filesystem

Ben Lobaugh
5 min readJan 10, 2021
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A compromised website sucks. A compromised website that an attacker can insert code into to manipulate your visitors is even worse! Out-of-the-box, Docker containers provide some security advantages over running directly on the host, however Docker provides additional features to increase security. There is a little known flag in Docker that will convert a container’s files system to…

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Ben Lobaugh

Director of Engineering at Mindsize. 20+ year technology veteran. Providing leadership insights, mentorship, and coaching to new and existing leaders.