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Defender for Servers or containers covers VMs on Containers?

Rakesh Singh 270 Reputation points
2024-11-04T16:38:05.95+00:00

We have a scenario wherein we are to have AKS clusters with containers. We would be running VMs on these containers. We wanted to understand if Defender for servers or Defender for containers or MDE covers these VMs from security standpoint at OS level, like a generale Defender for server would.

Please provide some insight to plan this better.

Regards,
Rakesh Singh

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  1. David Broggy 5,906 Reputation points MVP
    2024-11-04T17:04:27.7466667+00:00

    Hi Rakesh,

    There are containers and there are VMs. Each are considered a separate workload from the perspective of Defender for Cloud.

    When you go to Defender for Cloud, you should be able to see both your clusters and your VMs.

    If your VMs are in fact inside the clusters, they may require an Arc agent before they're visible to Defender for Cloud.

    I suspect that I'm misunderstanding your question, as it's odd that you'd run a VM in a container, yes?

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