Siloscape malware targets Windows containers, breaks through to the underlying Kubernetes cluster

Source:-https://www.theregister.com/ A reverse engineer has discovered what is claimed to be “the first known malware targeting Windows containers to compromise cloud environments,” a sentence to put any system administrator on edge. Building on work published in December of last year on reverse-engineering Windows containers, security researcher Daniel Prizmant’s latest discovery – made during his day job at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 security arm – looks to punch holes in Kubernetes clusters, and has apparently succeeded in doing so across

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Kubernetes-Focused Firms Made Big Targets in 2020

Source:-https://www.sdxcentral.com It was good to be a Kubernetes-focused start up in 2020, especially if you were looking to be acquired. And if that focus happened to be in the security space, well then forget about it. Sure, last year’s Kubernetes-focused merger and acquisition show might not have hit the highs of 2019, when IBM spent all the money ($34 billion) to get its hands on Red Hat – and make no mistake that that deal was heavily influenced by Red

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Red Hat and Github Collaborate To Expand the Developer Experience on Red Hat OpenShift With Github Actions

Source:-https://www.albawaba.com Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, and GitHub, the software collaboration platform home to more than 50 million developers, today announced extended collaboration between the two companies, emphasizing Red Hat OpenShift through GitHub Actions and more. Red Hat is adding Red Hat GitHub Actions to the GitHub Marketplace, bringing GitHub’s DevOps, continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) and developer workflow automation tools to Red Hat OpenShift. This further refines the application development capabilities of the world’s

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Microsoft CAPZ Drives More Kubernetes Control

Source:-https://www.sdxcentral.com Microsoft launched a more complete Kubernetes tool to manage clusters on its Azure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) that its open source team recommends as a replacement for the existing AKS Engine offering. The Cluster API Provider for Azure (CAPZ) also takes a step back from what has been a more abstracted view for managing container clusters on public cloud infrastructure. Craig Peters, principal program manager for Azure container compute at Microsoft, explained in an email to SDxCentral that CAPZ is a

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Mirantis Melds Kubernetes With OpenStack

Source:-https://containerjournal.com Mirantis this week rolled out Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes, an instance of the open source cloud management framework in which all the components have been encapsulated in containers. Shaun O’Meara, global field CTO at Mirantis, says that approach makes it possible to then employ Kubernetes to orchestrate those containers. Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes is the first in a planned series of enhancements to the Mirantis Cloud Native Platform, a family of offerings based on Kubernetes that includes Mirantis Container

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A hot mesh? Istio team hopes so as it bets on user experience to lure devs with v 1.8

Source:-https://devclass.com The team behind service mesh Istio has released version 1.8 of its project. The last major update of the year showcases further advances of the Istio User Experience working group and improves on some security aspects. For example, the mesh has stopped reading certificates directly from Kubernetes and now sends them from Istiod to gateways instead. The approach supposedly makes the often publicly exposed gateways less of a risk factor while also upping performance. Version 1.8 also looks to

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Using Machine Learning and Kubernetes Logs to Automate Security Threat Detection

Source:-https://containerjournal.com Kubernetes is quickly consolidating its place as the leading container orchestration platform for cloud-native applications, with adoption at 59% among enterprise IT professionals as of March. But while Kubernetes delivers agility, flexibility and scalability for DevOps teams, it also creates complexity that can be an enigma for SecOps teams—especially when something goes wrong. When it comes to detecting threats and tracking down breaches in Kubernetes, security teams’ key asset is the Kubernetes API server audit log. The audit log

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Linbit builds Kubernetes on-ramp for WD OpenFlex

Source:-https://blocksandfiles.com Western Digital’s composable OpenFlex flash storage system now supports Kubernetes storage, courtesy of Linbit’s LINSTOR software. OpenFlex is a physical chassis, containing SSDs or disk drives, which is addressed as an NVMe target device. It’s basically an NVMe-oF JBOD (Just a bunch of drives) and needs additional software to link it to containerised environments. Manfred Berger, WD’s senior manager for business development, platforms, said in a statement: “With Linbit’s LINSTOR software added to our OpenFlex offering, the software-defined-storage solution

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Accelerating Kubernetes Development

Source:-https://containerjournal.com Building a tool for Kubernetes developers means solving a bunch of problems (e.g., multiple clusters, kubeconfigs, secrets, kubectl functionality, how to represent the hierarchy of abstractions inside a cluster, etc.) and creating a user experience that promotes speed. A good dashboard lets you select from among multiple clusters and: See the states of everything and work with whatever you’re permissioned to access (this translates into zero need for IT operators to centrally administer dashboard-specific permissions). Drill into abstractions—see what’s

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StackRox Tool Prevents Kubernetes Misconfigurations

Source:-https://containerjournal.com StackRox today unveiled an open source static analysis tool dubbed Kubelinter that analyzes YAML files and Helm Charts to identify misconfigurations in Kubernetes deployments prior to deployment. Viswa Venugopal, staff software engineer at StackRox, says given the prevalence of misconfigured Kubernetes clusters it’s apparent there is a need for a security tool that IT teams can employ before a Kubernetes cluster is deployed. Written on the Go programming language, Kubelintr accomplishes that goal in a single binary file that

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Aqua Security Simplifies Kubernetes Security

Source:-https://containerjournal.com Aqua Security today unveiled a Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM) offering that provides IT teams with a set of policies and controls to automate configuration and compliance of Kubernetes clusters. In addition, Aqua Security has added a Kubernetes Runtime Protection module that provides an option for using Kubernetes Admission Controllers to deploy security controls as a set of sidecar containers directly on to a Kubernetes pod. KSPM comes with more than 20 predefined rules available out of the box

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NetApp Uses Kubernetes for Storageless Infrastructure

Source:-https://containerjournal.com NetApp today at its online NetApp Insights 2020 conference announced it has added a storageless computing service that extends an existing Spot Ocean serverless computing framework for containers to make storage resources available on-demand in Kubernetes environments. Ronen Schwartz, senior vice president and general manager for cloud volumes at NetApp, said as Spot Storage by NetApp continues to evolve, IT organizations will be able to leverage a storageless computing framework across hybrid cloud computing environments without having to administer

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Overcoming Kubernetes Infrastructure Challenges

Source:-https://containerjournal.com The widespread adoption of the Kubernetes standard for container orchestration has redefined how organizations manage computing deployments at the edge. In turn, more innovative use cases have emerged for lightweight Kubernetes distributions like K3s, designed for small footprint workloads. These Kubernetes deployments can range in size from 500 to 600 single-node clusters to 15,000 to 20,000 clusters, with an average size of 1,700 clusters. As an example, an oil and gas support services company, and Rancher Labs customer, intends

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Sydney’s CMD Solutions says Tanzu on VMware Cloud for AWS would boost cloud-native adoption

Source:-https://www.crn.com The addition of VMware’s Tanzu application modernisation suite to VMware Cloud on AWS would see more organisations adopting cloud-native apps and provide flexibility, according to CMD Solutions boss Andre Morgan. Sydney-based CMD is an AWS partner and cloud consultancy that also specialises in application modernisation through containers like Kubernetes. The company is also an accredited VMware Cloud on AWS partner. Following the recently concluded VMworld 2020, CMD was receptive to the announcement around Tanzu, VMware’s suite of software and

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5 Questions To Ask Before Adopting Kubernetes

Source:-https://containerjournal.com It may seem as if these days everybody is using Kubernetes. There’s a lot of hype. But the truth is, most companies are still using virtual machines and on-premises data centers, and that’s quite fine. Before you go and adopt Kubernetes, I want to share with you some misconceptions about Kubernetes and help you understand those problems won’t be magically solved by adopting it. Will Kubernetes Reduce Your Costs? One of the most popular reasons to adopt Kubernetes is

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6 Kubernetes Security Use Cases You Must Prioritize

Source:-https://securityboulevard.com Organizations are rapidly moving their Kubernetes applications to production to accelerate feature velocity and drive digital transformation and business growth. Our latest State of Kubernetes Security survey report shows that companies have standardized on Kubernetes, and this rapid adoption offers equal parts promise and peril. Promise, in the form of infrastructure that enables far greater inherent security than ever before. And peril, as companies struggle to overcome a skills gap and configure the technology in the most secure manner.

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CNCF Graduates Rook to Automate Kubernetes Storage Tasks

Source:-https://containerjournal.com The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has graduated Rook, an open source storage orchestrator for Kubernetes clusters, at a time when the number of stateful applications being built and deployed using containers is starting to increase. Rook automates deployment, bootstrapping, configuration, provisioning, scaling, upgrading and migration of storage services on Kubernetes platforms in addition to enabling disaster recovery, monitoring and resource management. Jared Watts, a Rook maintainer and founding engineer for Upbound, a provider of an open source platform

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How to become a Kubernetes expert

Source:-https://www.techrepublic.com Kubernetes has become quite the buzz word within the enterprise and for good reason. Demand for job candidates with Kubernetes skills has increased in recent years as more organizations use this container management technology. According to Indeed, between October 2015 and October 2019, the share of Kubernetes jobs per million grew by 2,141%, while the share of Kubernetes job searches increased 2,125%. Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration system that is used for automating computer application deployment, scaling,

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Veeam acquires Kasten for $150mn to push Kubernetes backup

Source:-https://www.expresscomputer.in Backup solutions provider Veeam Software has acquired Kasten, market leader for Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, for $150 million in a cash and stock deal. The acquisition will help Veeam and Kasten’s modern data management platform speed the production deployment of container-based applications. “With the acquisition of our partner Kasten, we are taking a very important next step to accommodate our customers’ shift to container adoption in order to protect Kubernetes-native workloads on-premises and across multi-cloud environments,” said Danny

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Kubernetes Architecture: How the Market and Ecosystem Are Changing

Source:-https://www.itprotoday.com The Kubernetes architecture, which debuted as an open source project in 2014, is no longer very new. But there are many new dimensions to the ecosystem surrounding Kubernetes, which has changed remarkably in just the past year. Not only has Kubernetes itself continued to evolve and (arguably) finally reach maturity, but acquisitions and other major moves by vendors in the market have carried important implications for the way Kubernetes is created and consumed. 1. The Kubernetes market is consolidating.

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