ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies , vol.4, pp.383-388, 2023 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Container security involves a broad spectrum
of concerns, including the security of the operating system, auditing
the supply chain and the application security of the running containers.
This wide attack surface will also include the security of the
container orchestration system and its components once a container
orchestration system is introduced to manage the fleet of containers in
an environment. In order to advance the research in this field, prior
work should be comparable and reproducible. However, we identified a
research gap for this aspect; publicly available datasets for container
security is sparse and reproducibility of the research output so far is
arduous. In this study, we share a dataset consisting of network flows,
collected from a Kubernetes cluster. Furthermore, we performed a
preliminary analysis on the data as a sanity check to evaluate its
quality. By sharing this dataset publicly, we hope to help further
studies and establish benchmarks in the field of container networking
security.