Prisma Cloud Compute Defender is designed to secure containerized workloads across various environments. It offers specific, officially supported deployment methods for major container orchestrators. These include standard Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift (which is a Kubernetes distribution with added enterprise features), and Amazon's proprietary container orchestrator, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). These three represent the primary orchestrator types for which Defender deployment is actively supported and documented.

C. Support for Docker Swarm has been deprecated in recent versions of Prisma Cloud Compute and is not recommended for new deployments.

D. Azure Container Service (ACS) was a legacy Microsoft service that has been deprecated and replaced by Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), which is supported.

1. Palo Alto Networks. (2023). System Requirements - Defender. Prisma Cloud Administrator's Guide (Compute). The table under "Container Runtimes and Orchestrators" explicitly lists Kubernetes

OpenShift

and Amazon ECS as supported orchestrators.

2. Palo Alto Networks. (2023). Deploy Defender. Prisma Cloud Administrator's Guide (Compute). This section provides distinct deployment guides for "Kubernetes

" "OpenShift

" and "ECS

" confirming their status as supported platforms.