Tag: Cloud
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Vertex AI Agents
Google Cloud Platform’s Vertex AI offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to simplify the process of building, deploying, and scaling machine learning models. One of the standout features of Vertex AI is its support for Agents, which are frameworks that enable seamless integration and automation within AI workflows. In this blog post, we’ll delve…
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SpinKube WASM in Kubernetes
SpinKube is a new open-source project that is tailored to deploying WASM (WebAssembly) workloads on Kubernetes. SpinKube enhances the ability of scalability of WASM applications this tool allows integration with kubernetes primitives and use of conversion of application using the spin-plugin to make it effective conversion of YAML to interpret by the cluster and serve…
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API Server VNET Integration
Connectivity in AKS If you’re running AKS in production you’ll likely encounter the private link scope and integration of leverage private DNS zones for putting the API server behind private IP’s rather than accessible on port 6443 or you should be doing this. But what about other options? Perhaps you’re spinning up a dev/test cluster…
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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…
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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…
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Conftest and authoring custom checks in Policy as Code
Introduction In the rapidly evolving world of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), ensuring compliance and security is paramount. How can we use tools that agnostically enforce guard rails uninformedly? One way to do this without incurring extravagant costs is using Conftest a wrapper of OPA. In this latest blog I’m going to cover how Conftest seamlessly…
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Road to Multi-Cloud Architect 2023 Reflections
Head in the clouds November was filled with immense amounts announced throughout multiple cloud platforms but also notes when I’ve finally accomplished a well sought after goal of mine, achieving all three CSP’s Architect Pro. It would be of note that the landscape is constantly changing and staying at this pace of bleeding edge you…
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Chaos Mesh on EKS
Introduction Ensuring the reliability and resilience of modern cloud-native applications is crucial, especially as services scale to support more users and traffic. One effective approach is chaos engineering – intentionally introducing failures, delays, and other adverse conditions to evaluate a system’s response and ability to recover. By proactively testing how an application behaves under chaotic…
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Wazuh on Kubernetes
Wazuh is a open-source XDR and SIEM with cloud workload protection in this blog post we are covering the kubernetes deployment of resources for Wazuh in a cluster. For starters we are going to need to clone our repo to follow along mind you I’m hosting this in AKS. For clusters involving EKS in the…
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Chaos Studio Experiments in AKS
Introduction Chaos Studio was presented as a service in Microsoft Azure that is to measure and understand your applications service resilience, I’ve wrote about using LitmusChaos previously in a blog but felt like I could create more on this topic as application resiliency is not only pivotal to organizations operations. Chaos Engineering is the practice…