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by viraptor 2636 days ago
It's not obvious though. It may be less risk, but you're not eliminating interfaces with a VM. You're replacing them with new ones. With bare processes you've got shared system resources and kernel to attack. With Docker you've got the kernel to attack. With VMs you've got virtual hardware drivers to attack.

We can play with risk estimation, but in practice, both containers and VMs were affected by memory sharing failures already. We know that syscall/ioctl issues exist. And we know that virtualisation issues exist.