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November 13–15, 2018 - Shanghai, China
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Thursday, November 15 • 16:45 - 17:20
Nabla Containers: A New Approach to Container Isolation - Brandon Lum & Ricardo Koller, IBM

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Horizontal attacks are an important security concern for cloud providers and its tenants. Despite its many advantages, containers have not been accepted as isolated sandboxes, which is crucial for container-native clouds. The exposure of the syscall interface directly to untrusted workloads has greatly increased the number of exploits possible to the host.

We present Nabla containers, which uses library OS/unikernel techniques to avoid system calls and thereby reduce the attack surface on the host kernel. Using our OCI runtime, runnc (https://github.com/nabla-containers/runnc), we show the running of popular applcations: Node.js, python, redis, etc. permitting use of < 9 syscalls via seccomp. In this talk, we will discuss and demo how we have leveraged libOS ideas in a novel way and compare isolation and performance metrics against other technologies such as gvisor and Kata Containers.

Speakers
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Ricardo Koller

Research staff member, IBM Research
Ricardo Koller is a systems researcher at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He specializes on virtualization and OS kernels, and has been focusing on unikernels and container security. He is an original author of the Solo5 unikernel base and Nabla Containers. He has given talks... Read More →
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Brandon Lum

Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Brandon loves designing and implementing computer systems (with a focus on Security, Operating Systems, and Distributed/Parallel Systems). He enjoys tackling both technical and business challenges and has a side interest in organizational behavior and leadership. At IBM Research... Read More →



Thursday November 15, 2018 16:45 - 17:20 CST
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