Next Cloud Security Challenge: Containers and Kubernetes

Source:-bankinfosecurity.com The increasing use of containers and orchestration tools, such as Kubernetes, are driving demand for new cloud security and application deployment processes, according to research from the Cloud Security Alliance presented Monday at the RSA 2020 conference in San Francisco. The goal is to build security into the application development cycle as early as possible, says John Yeoh, global vice president of research at the not-for-profit alliance. “As we have seen with the use of containers and micro-services and

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Mirantis Collects Kontena Kubernetes Cast-Offs

Source:-sdxcentral.com The leadership and engineering talent of Finland-based Kontena traded their jerseys in today and became the latest addition to Mirantis’ expanding Kubernetes lineup. Mirantis did not acquire any of Kontena’s assets or its IP as the vendor is currently in the midst of “liquidating its assets,” explained Dave Van Everen, SVP of marketing at Mirantis in an interview with SDxCentral. However, similar to the Docker Enterprise deal, Mirantis is further driving brain gain in recruiting the leadership and “talented

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Top 10 VM backup tools for VMware and Hyper-V

Source:-searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com Admins who rely on VMware and Hyper-V workloads might have trouble choosing the right backup tool for their VMs. Admins can use this article to better inform their purchasing decisions. When it comes to VM backups, administrators’ biggest challenge might be deciding between different backup products, such as Veeam’s Backup and Replication, Altaro’s VM Backup and Cohesity’s DataProtect. Admins must understand the benefits and use cases of VM backup tools, such as instant recovery capabilities and public cloud support,

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VMware Details its Tanzu/Kubernetes Strategy After Pivotal Merger

Source:-infoq.com After acquiring Pivotal at the end of last year, VMware has detailed in a recent webinar how it will go about fulfilling its strategy aimed to help customers build their apps, run them using Kubernetes, and manage them from a single control plane. When VMware announced its intention to acquire the Kubernetes-centered cloud platform and service provider Pivotal in August 2019, VMware had just introduced its VMware Tanzu strategy. While VMware clarified from the outset that Pivotal was going

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Kubernetes Security Plagued by Human Error, Misconfigs

Source:-sdxcentral.com Container orchestration is hard enough — yes, we’re looking at you Kubernetes — but properly securing container and Kubernetes environments catapults deployment into another universe of complexity. Findings from StackRox’s latest “State of Container and Kubernetes Security Report” indicate that human error and misconfigurations are the primary culprits for Kubernetes security snafus. Assisted by research and advisory firm 451 Research, StackRox polled more than 540 Kubernetes and container users across IT security, DevOps, engineering, and product roles. The survey

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Kubernetes storage 101: Container storage basics

Source:-computerweekly.com We look at the basics of creating storage and specifying it for applications in container storage using Kubernetes Persistent Volumes and Persistent Volume Claims Use of containerised applications, usually with a container orchestrator such as Kubernetes, is currently a huge trend in IT, and is becoming almost ubiquitous with users across all sectors. Containerised applications is a form of application virtualisation, but one that does away with the need for multiple iterations of an operating system (OS). Containers are

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Ingram Micro’s Promark Now Distributing Platform9’s Kubernetes, OpenStack Services

Source:-channelfutures.com Platform9 aims to dramatically grow its managed Kubernetes and OpenStack sales and services now that it has signed a distribution deal with Promark, which is a subsidiary of distributor powerhouse Ingram Micro. Under the deal, Platform9’s Managed Kubernetes (PMK) and Managed OpenStack (PMO) products will gain access to Promark’s wide range of VARs and other channel partners in the U.S. to help the company expand its market around the globe, the companies said. Kamesh Pemmaraju, Platform9’s head of product

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Five Surprising Ways Enterprises Are Putting Kubernetes To Work

Source:-forbes.com About five years have passed since Google handed over control of Kubernetes, its open-source container management platform, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Since then, Kubernetes has quickly become the leading container orchestration solution on the market. A 2019 survey that our company conducted with Aqua Security revealed 87% of respondents were running applications in containers, with nearly 90% of them running them in production. While Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for orchestrating applications in containers, the

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Kubernetes Security Software Market Insights, Future Trends, On-going Demand, Opportunities, Segmentation, and Forecast till 2027

Source:-newsparent.com Global Kubernetes Security Software Market Size, Share, Growth, Status and Forecast 2020-2027 This thoroughly analysed report provides key statistics and Trend on the market position of the Kubernetes Security Software manufacturers and is an industrious source of guidance and direction for companies and individuals interested in the industry. Initially, the report provides a basic information of Industries including its definitions, manufacturing technologies and applications. After that the report explores the international major industry players in detail. This report presents

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How Kubernetes and Containers Enable Highly Scalable CI Applications

Source:-rtinsights.com Building continuous intelligence applications on cloud-native architectures using containers and Kubernetes makes it easier to deploy, maintain, and update those applications to meet changing business requirements. The first blog in this series noted how cloud-native increasingly is the architecture of choice to build and deploy continuous intelligence (CI) applications. A cloud-native approach, combined with a streaming engine, gives companies the flexibility to rapidly develop and deploy new CI applications to meet fast-changing business requirements. Specifically, cloud-native architectures are dynamic,

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Container and Kubernetes Security Market Anticipated to Grow at a Significant Pace by 2026| Aqua Security (Israel), Alert Logic (US), Anchore (US)

Source:-nysenasdaqlive.com Los Angles United States, February 2020: The Container and Kubernetes Security market has been garnering remarkable momentum in the recent years. The steadily escalating demand due to improving purchasing power is projected to bode well for the global market. QY Research’s latest publication, Titled “[Container and Kubernetes Security Market Research Report 2020]”, offers an insightful take on the drivers and restraints present in the market. It assesses the historical data pertaining to the Container and Kubernetes Security market and

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Do you really need Kubernetes?

Source:-itworld.com Is Kubernetes the perfect defense against cloud lock-in, or a needlessly complex solution to a problem nobody has? Oh, sure, Kubernetes is all the rage and of course you need one. Maybe three! But if you ever stop to think, “Why Kubernetes?”, as Paul Johnston did, well, expect lots (and lots) of opinions. One of the primary reasons IT professionals cite for embracing Kubernetes is to reduce lock-in by ensuring portability between clouds. This turns out to be better

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HowTo Do DevOps Effectively

Source:-infosecurity-magazine.com Today every company that deals with software development is seeking ways how to optimize this process as it is pretty costly while delivering the product more robust than competitors. Here DevOps practices can help. Whilst the Waterfall development model prevailed, development and operations were separated from the software development lifecycle. Today, with agile methodologies with increased iteration and deployments rounds, a new approach of DevOps became necessary. According to a study of more than 25,000 tech professionals from Puppet

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Azure Insights: Keda; Teams, Azure AD; VPN Gateway; 10 years of Azure

Source:-msdynamicsworld.com Azure pros share their thoughts on installing keda, controlling Teams with Azure AD, configuring Azure VPN Gateway, and the platform’s evolution. Deploying Keda In a recent blog post on Pixel Robots, Richard Hooper explored the role of keda, short for Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaler. Using custom resources such as ScaledObjects and TriggerAuthentication, it generates YAML files with parameters for scaling containers in a Kubernetes cluster. YAML files help to inform horizontal pod autoscalers. According to Hooper, users can install

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Docker Donates Converter Library for Storing CNAB Bundles in Container Registries to cnab.io

Source:-infoq.com Docker announced that they have donated the cnab-to-oci library to the Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB) project. The library can convert and push CNAB application bundles to OCI-compliant registries by leveraging existing OCI abstractions. The CNAB specification – originally co-developed by Docker, Microsoft, Hashicorp, Bitnami, Codefresh and others – is an attempt to be a cloud-agnostic solution for packaging and running distributed applications. Announced at DockerCon Europe 2018, CNAB uses the concept of a “bundle” to describe applications made

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Kubernetes Container Management Is Not Application Management

Source:-containerjournal.com Application performance management is different than container management in myriad ways. Don’t confuse the two. It’s scary how quickly widespread adoption was achieved for container technology in the world’s mission-critical business applications. Consider that it took about 10 years after the introduction of Java for the programming language to become a near-ubiquitous standard (followed shortly by C#/.Net). In stark contrast, enterprise-ready Docker just turned 5 years old, and it’s been pretty much everywhere for a while. Why so relatively

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Wind River unveils CI/CD model for Linux

Source:-newelectronics.co.uk Wind River has unveiled a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) model for Wind River Linux customers. By following a CI/CD process customers will have access to new releases every few weeks. This will allow teams to begin to build their own continuous integration and delivery systems for their customers, get a head start on building new platforms sooner, and enjoy similar benefits of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) management, technical support, and quality typically found in annual and

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5 Best DevOps Automation tools comparison in 2020

Source:-wire19.com The term DevOps is used in multiple ways, but in its broadest meaning, DevOps is an operational culture that aims at continuous development and integration, and rapid IT service delivery by promoting better communication and improved collaboration between developers and operators. It has become an integral part of different industry sectors, from startups to large enterprises are leveraging DevOps tools to support their business processes, and project planning until delivery. With the increasing use of cloud computing and virtualization

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Leveraging Kubernetes to Fuel Intelligence Everywhere

Source:-aithority.com Way back in 1992 when I was leading development for a shipping company, the Head of Sales forever changed the way I approached using data in our business environment. The request from Sales was simple enough. They needed to provide a breakdown of revenues, costs, largest customers, and some other attributes that could not be answered from any of our existing thousand plus reports. Worse, it would take 2-3 weeks to create a new report. The response from our

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3 tips to keep Kubernetes safe at scale

Source:-techrepublic.com As more companies adopt and scale their Kubernetes systems, security has to be a major point of interest. Kubernetes containers are now highly prevalent in multi-cloud environments and are being deployed widely across a variety of industries. In a survey last year, vice president of product marketing for Sumo Logic Kalyan Ramanathan wrote that the open-source container operating system was “dramatically reshaping the future of the modern application stack.” KubeCon 2019, a Kubernetes conference in November 2019, drew more

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