Container security has always been a concern — especially now in the wake of recent highly publicized vulnerabilities and breaches. But while containers benefit from running in isolated environments and have other advantages compared to traditional application structures, the peculiarities of Kubernetes as an orchestration platform represents additional security concerns. As Kubernetes continues on its rapid path of adoption, the need for a  reliable framework for vulnerability detection and management becomes that much more important.

The vacuum for a definitive audit of the state of Kubernetes security set the stage for publication of the Kubernetes Security Audit Working Group. On hand to discuss the audit during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon were Jay Beale, CTO of InGuardians, and Aaron Small, a product manager for Google, who are also both co-leads of the Kubernetes third-party assessment project. They discussed this and how Kubernetes, compared to Docker containers, represents a new, and ultimately, risky world of dependencies during a live recording in San Diego for this edition of The New Stack Makers podcast.