Software application container hosting

A computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable storage medium readable by one or more processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by one or more processor for performing a method comprising:
• examining target application container configuration data to identify one or more target container base image referenced in the target application container configuration:
• subjecting script data associated to the one or more target container base image to text based processing, wherein the text based processing comprises a text string associated with a confidence level, for evaluation of security risk associated to the one or more target container base image, the script data obtained from at least one candidate hosting computing environment;
• selecting a hosting computing environment from the at least one computing environment for hosting a target application container, the selecting in dependence on the text based processing;
• and
• iteratively performing the text based processing for evaluation of security risk and the selecting the hosting computing environment, wherein the method includes hosting the target application container on a first computing environment, and re-hosting the target application container on one or more computing nodes of a computing environment, responsively to a determination using the text based processing that the second computing environment poses reduced security risk relative to the first computing environment.

A system comprising:

• a memory;
• at least one processor in communication with the memory;
• and
• program instructions executable by one or more processor via the memory to perform a method comprising:
• examining target application container configuration data to identify one or more target container base image referenced in the target application container configuration:
• subjecting script data associated to the one or more target container base image to text based processing, wherein the text based processing comprises a text string associated with a confidence level, for evaluation of security risk associated to the one or more target container base image, the script data obtained from at least one candidate hosting computing environment;
• selecting a hosting computing environment from the at least one computing environment for hosting a target application container, the selecting in dependence on the text based processing;
• evaluating a security performance level of one or more target container base image and a target application container;
• and
• iteratively performing the text based processing for evaluation of security risk and the selecting the hosting computing environment, wherein the method includes hosting the target application container on a first computing environment, and re-hosting the target application container on a second computing environment having a threshold satisfying the security performance level, responsively to a determination using the text based processing that the second computing environment poses reduced security risk relative to the first computing environment.