Enabling FIPS mode in containers

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Issue

  • FIPS mode enabled on host OS but not in container
  • What do we need to do to have the container run in FIPS mode?
  • The ssh client in container does not report FIPS mode initialized

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • docker

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