Public Preview: Azure Monitor Pod Sandboxing support in Container insights

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Published

Jul 5, 2023

Status

In preview

Timeline

  • July 2023
    Preview

Product

Azure Monitor

Tag

Features

Category

DevOps
Management and governance

Description

Container Insights now supports monitoring pod sandboxed containers.

Pod Sandboxing provides an effective strategy for safeguarding against “Container Breakout” scenarios such as a malicious or legitimate user escaping container isolation to access filesystem, processes, network interfaces, and other resources on the host machine. While one can enforce isolation through node pools, such an approach poses significant operation and resource overhead and increases operational costs. Pod Sandboxing addresses this issue by isolation workloads at the kernel level.

Read more at https://aka.ms/cipodsandboxing