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How to secure (podman or docker) containers for public-facing hosting? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by cyclohexane@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Context

I want to host public-facing applications on a server in my home, without compromising security. I realize containers might be one way to do this, and want to explore that route further.

Requirements

I want to run applications within containers such that they

Must not be able to interfere with applications running on host
Must not be able to interfere with other containers or applications inside them
Must have no access or influence on other devices in the local network, or otherwise compromise the security of the network, but still accessible by devices via ssh.

Note: all of this within reason. I understand that sometimes there may be occasional vulnerabilities, like in kernel for example, that would eventually get fixed. Risks like this within reason I am willing to accept.

What I found so far

Running containers in rootless mode: in other words, running the container daemon with an unprivileged host user
Running applications in container under unprivileged users: the container user under which the container is ran should be unprivileged
Networking: The container's networking must be restricted. I am still not sure how to do this and shall explore it more, but would appreciate any resources.

Alternative solution

I have seen bubblewrap presented as an alternative, but it seems like it is not intended to be used directly in this manner, and information about using it for this is scarce.

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[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why does it need to be public-facing? There may be solutions that don't require exposing it to billions of people.

Security is always about layers. The more independent layers there are, the fewer the chances someone will break through all of them. There is no one technology that will make your hosting reasonably secure, it's the combination of multiple.

You've already mentioned software ran inside an unprivileged sandbox.

There's also:

Sandbox ran unprivileged inside a VM
VM ran inside unprivileged sandbox
Firewall only allowing applications to open certain ports
Server running all of that hosted by someone else on their network with their own abstractions

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

I'm thinking of hosting things like small fediverse servers, which from my understanding need to be public facing. Also thinking of running a monero node.