Tag: API

  • Retina by Microsoft OSS

    KubeCon 2024 in Europe has recently wrapped up this past week with some major announcements from various vendors one that stood out to me is the use of Retina. Microsoft released a open-source cloud-agnostic Kubernetes Network Observability platform this can provide a path to customizable telemetry. This telemetry has multiple options on where you’d like…

  • Exploring KEDA Scaling to Zero

    Continuing experimentation on CNCF projects I’ve stumbled across one that is near and dear to the Microsoft Azure space since KEDA was introduced with some contributors from Microsoft and still has maintainers that are current as of this repo’s README.md. To understand further on what exactly KEDA is we start at the top of what…

  • KubeArmor Explored

    KubeArmor is a cloud-native runtime security enforcement system that works with restricting behavior (this resides with execution, file access, and network operations) of pods, containers, and nodes (VM’s) at the system level. The way this tool works is by using Linux Security Modules which to no surprise are enamored in the Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist…

  • Azure ML on AKS with Trusted Access

    Azure ML on AKS with Trusted Access

    Trusted Access which is in preview provides secure access to the Kubernetes API Server while granting services that are needed for operations without requiring a traditional (private-endpoint). This feature uses the system0assigned managed identity as a authentication mechanism as intermediary to access your AKS clusters. As always in any feature that is rolled out prior…

  • Capsule – Multi-tenant in Kubernetes

    Capsule – Multi-tenant in Kubernetes

    Introduction Multi-tenancy in Kubernetes refers to the ability to isolate and manage multiple user groups or ‘tenants’ within a single Kubernetes cluster. This approach is essential for organizations that want to maximize resource utilization while maintaining isolation and security between different user groups. Typically this can be achieved by either logical isolation mapping namespaces as…

  • Conftest in Terraform in Action

    Introduction In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, ensuring the security and compliance of infrastructure has become paramount. Open Policy Agent (OPA) is a CNCF-graduated open-source project that utilizes rego policies for enforcement. With its ability to expand to multiple resources and its relatively easy-to-pick-up syntax, OPA has gained significant popularity. In this blog post, we…

  • Kubernetes v1.28.0 Validating Admission Policies

    Kubernetes recently dubbed “Planternetes” with a large amount of enhancements, notably I’m covering some aspects of new releases in security features and Validating Admission Policies stood out to me. I’ve created a script using bash and kind with proper configuration for you to run this demo. I’m running on Ubuntu you can use macOS or…

  • Kubernetes Bill of Materials – Supply Chain Security

    Software Bill of Materials has grown in popularity and adoption from many open source software projects to provide transparency of software supply chain attestation of packages associated with the build of the software. While the aim of Software Bill of Materials aims to reduce or be the front protection in the movement behind software supply…

  • Azure Kubernetes Service Gateway API for Containers (Backend MTLS)

    Background Application Gateway for Containers is a new feature offering for Azure Kubernetes Service that encompasses native capabilities and extends the use of services by implementing a Application Load Balancer controller to facilitate operations. Options of going more native to Kubernetes is really a strong suit of Azure that the operations that allows your organization…

  • Application Gateway for Containers in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

    Most of the production recommendations in regards to Azure Kubernetes Service was directed to use native Application Gateway Ingress Controller. I’ve heard mixed uses of this being cumbersome and tedious that others have opted for use of nginx-ingress controller. As of this week the (preview) for Application Gateway for Containers is able to be used…