Automated service-oriented performance management

One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing instructions which when executed cause one or more processors to perform a method of automatically determining operation rules for access control related to container operations, the method comprising:

• receiving, from one or more service monitoring processes configured to monitor operations of one or more computer applications instantiated within one or more containers, operation datasets representing operations that have been performed by one or more processes associated with the one or more computer applications;
• generating a baseline dataset of operations having operation properties from the operation datasets;
• computing a score for each operation in the baseline dataset, from the operation datasets, the score indicating whether the operation is a candidate for generating a rule that defines one or more expected values for an operation property of the operation;
• automatically generating a set of baseline operations rules for only those operations in the baseline dataset that score more than a score threshold,
• the set of baseline operation rules including a baseline operation rule related to certain input parameters, for networking ports or for definition files, to be used upon initialization of a container of the one or more containers.