Industrial Automatic Control Systems and Controllers Annotation << Back Container Virtualization as a Basis Cloud Automated Systems Popov A.D. The article identifi es the main components responsible for the functioning of containerized environments within the operating system. The advantages and disadvantages of existing software implementations, which are the basis for operating containers in a production environment, are presented. The directions for the development of information security for organizing a secure architecture based on containers have been identifi ed. Keywords: container virtualization, container, containerized environment, container image, microservice architecture, Docker, Kubernetes, Runc, operating system, Linux. DOI: 10.25791/asu.9.2024.1530 Pp. 23-33.