It goes without saying – security is of the utmost importance in your production infrastructure. Nanobox was built with strict security protocols in place. The following measures have been put in place to reduce your app's attack plane.
Each and every server provisioned through Nanobox uses a simple Ubuntu bootstrap script (feel free to view the source). This bootstrap installs and configures Docker and the Nanobox agent as well as a brutal, default-deny firewall via iptables and a custom overlay network. It also ensures that the core software is up-to-date.
Once a host is bootstrapped, you essentially have a machine that is fully locked-down, running only Docker, the Nanobox agent, and the virtual network. At this point, not even the other machines within the same network can talk to the machine.
After the initial bootst