IoT security is increasingly important, and with the rapid adoption of container and orchestration technologies, it is essential to harden the overall container infrastructure to protect against malicious attacks and other anomalies that may cause disruptions to the operations of the IoT deployments.

This paper presents an overview of trusted containers which takes several foundational steps towards the hardening of the container infrastructure running on the IoT edge device as well as the backend connectivity to the infrastructure by using Intel® Platform Trust Technology, a trusted platform module and Docker Enterprise from Mirantis.