Containers

TL;DR OpenClaw, my self-hosted AI trading agent, was running in a fat container with 46 Critical CVEs, no network restrictions, and no automated vulnerability scanning. I fixed all three: multi-stage Dockerfile dropped the CVE count to single digits, default-deny NetworkPolicies locked down traffic, and a daily CronJob triages Trivy scan results via local LLM and posts a digest to Slack. Total cost of the automated triage: $0/day. The problem with AI agent containers AI agent containers are uniquely bad from a security perspective. They need: ...

TL;DR Goss tests the image, not the running container. Use dgoss run --env-file .env to inject your environment and then assert in three layers: does the var exist, is it non-empty, and does it actually authenticate? That layering tells you exactly where the chain breaks instead of just “MySQL connection failed.” The problem I saw someone in a DevOps forum wrestling with this exact thing. They were manually debugging why their .env values weren’t translating properly into MySQL credentials, and had turned to Goss to automate sanity checks. Two questions tripped them up: ...