What’s New in Kubernetes 1.17: A Deeper Look at New Features

What’s New in Kubernetes 1.17: A Deeper Look at New Features

The release of Kubernetes 1.17 introduces several powerful new features and sees others maturing toward or into general availability. This recap provides a rundown of some of the most notable changes, which include: major improvements in cluster network and routing controls and scalability; new capabilities in cluster storage, pod scheduling ... Read More
How to Make Istio Work with Your Apps

How to Make Istio Work with Your Apps

This post is a companion to the talk I gave at Cloud Native Rejekts NA ’19 in San Diego on how to work around common issues when deploying applications with the Istio service mesh in a Kubernetes cluster. The Istio Service Mesh The rise of microservices, powered by Kubernetes, brings ... Read More
What’s New in Istio 1.4?

What’s New in Istio 1.4?

The Istio working group just released Istio 1.4.0 ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in San Diego this week. This post summarizes how this latest version continues the project’s recent focus on improving the operability and performance of Istio for production users. Highlights Continued work on performance improvements with ... Read More
StackRox + PagerDuty – Know about Your Kubernetes Security Issues, Now

StackRox + PagerDuty – Know about Your Kubernetes Security Issues, Now

StackRox has pioneered Kubernetes-native container security, bringing rich context and infrastructure-native enforcement to protecting Kubernetes and containers across build, deploy, and runtime. We recognize the importance of getting critical alerts about this cloud-native stack to the right team, at the right moment – by integrating with PagerDuty, we broadened the ... Read More
StackRox – Unique Innovations for Hardening Kubernetes

StackRox – Unique Innovations for Hardening Kubernetes

Just in time for KubeCon next week, we’re announcing today the 3.0 version of our StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform. We’re really proud of the industry-first capabilities we’re introducing with this upgrade, enabling our customers to better harden their Kubernetes and container environments. Every time we build new functionality into our ... Read More
SOC 2 Compliance in Container and Kubernetes Environments

SOC 2 Compliance in Container and Kubernetes Environments

SOC (System and Organization Controls) 2 is a set of compliance requirements that applies to companies that store, process, or transmit customer data. A broad range of companies, including SaaS providers, may need to comply with SOC 2 to be competitive in the market and keep customer data secure. Public ... Read More
Advantages of Kubernetes-Native Security Explained [Video Interview]

Advantages of Kubernetes-Native Security Explained [Video Interview]

I recently joined Alan Shimel, editor-in-chief of DevOps.com for a chat about what it means to be a Kubernetes-native security platform and why we believe it’s the most effective way to secure containers and Kubernetes. You can watch our conversation in the video below, or you can read through the ... Read More
Patches for CVE-2019-11253 released: Why you should upgrade your Kubernetes clusters immediately

Patches for CVE-2019-11253 released: Why you should upgrade your Kubernetes clusters immediately

The Kubernetes team has released patches for the recently disclosed “Billion Laughs” vulnerability, that allowed an attacker to perform a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack on the Kubernetes API server by uploading a maliciously crafted YAML file. With those patches comes the disclosure that the vulnerability was more severe than previously announced, ... Read More
StackRox Secures Kubernetes and Simplifies SOC 2 for FinTech Disruptor YayPay

StackRox Secures Kubernetes and Simplifies SOC 2 for FinTech Disruptor YayPay

When you’re focused on revolutionizing the Accounts Receivable (AR) market, feature innovation and delivery are your lifeblood, and containers and Kubernetes become your currency. Protecting customer data on that cloud-native infrastructure is essential to successfully disrupting this FinTech market. YayPay is proud of its digital disruptor status, and StackRox is ... Read More
Holistic Kubernetes and Cloud-Native App Security - Podcast

Holistic Kubernetes and Cloud-Native App Security – Podcast

I recently joined Mitch Ashley from DevOps Chat to dive into the need for a systemic security approach across the life cycle of cloud-native, Kubernetes applications. We explored how Kubernetes and cloud-native apps bring access to rich configuration information, usage visibility, runtime context, inherent security controls and compliance. You can ... Read More