The problem with the security of containers doesn't have much to do with mandatory access control and similar mechanisms: it lies with the fact that you get a huge pile of software, a whole operating system to inspect, whereas the software in question is just a tiny bit of it. You need to trust the people who created the app as being competent enough to crate the app without errors, but also trust that they made no mistake in configuring the whole rest of the system that you would normally set up yourself. Having AppArmor/SELinux or not doesn't change much here as practically anything can be broken, and your task as a security officer working for a company using Docker images is an order of magnitude more difficult.
Well. The flipside is that you can get a security oriented well configured virtual machine instead and ignore all this Docker thing that is no better at anything security than plain Linux kernel.
(While still using, say, Kubernetes to manage it.)
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