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DevOps Security: Security Best Practices
In this lab, you’ll practice your security skills. When you’re finished, you’ll have a solid understanding of the most common security best practices and how to put them into practice.
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Getting Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Create Secure Containers
You will make use of best practices to create secure and minimal container images. You will also use OpenSource tools like trivy to identify and fix the most common vulnerabilities within your image.
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Run Containers Securely
You will run your container image securely by configuring runtime settings like resource limits and read-only filesystems. You will also control access to the docker container using user and group settings.
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Manage Sensitive Data
You will modify an existing application to enhance security around secret management. You will use tools like HashiCorp Vault to securely store and manage sensitive information.
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Monitor Suspicious Activity
You will use monitoring tools to detect potential suspicious activity. You will also simulate and respond to a basic security incident.
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The Last Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
What's a lab?
Hands-on Labs are real environments created by industry experts to help you learn. These environments help you gain knowledge and experience, practice without compromising your system, test without risk, destroy without fear, and let you learn from your mistakes. Hands-on Labs: practice your skills before delivering in the real world.
Provided environment for hands-on practice
We will provide the credentials and environment necessary for you to practice right within your browser.
Guided walkthrough
Follow along with the author’s guided walkthrough and build something new in your provided environment!
Did you know?
On average, you retain 75% more of your learning if you get time for practice.