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What is a "modern hardened cloud OS kernel"?
by throwaway2048 6y ago
What is a "modern hardened cloud OS kernel"?
- blablabla123 6y agoThe cloud part makes much more sense when combining it with the user land. I think that's also where OpenBSD (or *BSD in general) really shines, everything is very coherent. Regarding Linux, I'd probably see CentOS/RHEL as "modern hardened cloud OS" with all it's measures in place. But even as a complete BSD beginner, I find OpenBSD or FreeBSD easier to configure than CentOS, which IIRC requires a lot of manual whitelisting of capabilities for server daemons.
- justin66 6y agoIt's an operating system kernel that can apparently provoke a response from a number of people in spite of having two buzzwords prefacing it.
- rvp-x 6y agoPresumably something like CoreOS which makes extensive use of containers and any security feature it can get its hands on. If I personally put my own opinion on it, I don't like unnecessary use of containers because the model gives you a lot of outdated dependencies, and I'm not sure whether containing a vulnerability once it happens is that noteworthy. Old skool "use good, secure code. update dependencies" and not focusing on containing a vulnerability produces a much safer system IMO.