Prepare Conjur environment for Docker or Podman deployment

Before you begin your Conjur deployment and configuration, you need to prepare your Conjur environment:

Deployment environment	Preparation instructions
Provisioned VMs	Prepare VMs for Conjur deployment and configuration
AWS	Prepare AWS image for Conjur deployment and configuration (Docker only)

Docker container requirements

The Conjur server Docker container must be allowed to use the following resources of the host operating system:

• Network access through the ports configured in the docker run command.

• Mount container volumes in the file system, as configured in the docker run command.

• Store keys in the host system kernel keyring.

For more information about the docker run command, see Start the Conjur container.

Additionally, if a seccomp file is provided when starting the Conjur server container, it must include special provisions for keyring access. For more details and an example, see Docker security profile.