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Real-time dynamic authorization – an introduction to OPAL

Posted on June 27, 2022 | By Daniel Bass

An introduction to OPAL – an open-source administration layer for Open Policy Agent (OPA) that allows you to easily keep your authorization layer up-to-date in real-time Guest post originally published on the Permit.io blog by Daniel Bass TL;DR OPAL is an open-source administration…


Kubernetes Operators: what are they? Some examples

Posted on June 15, 2022

Guest post originally published on the SparkFabrik blog Kubernetes offers limited initial functionality to ensure flexibility and scalability. K8s Operators are software extensions that make use of Kubernetes APIs to extend behavior. What do we need to know…


The top 10 fallacies in platform engineering

Posted on June 15, 2022 | By Kaspar von Grünberg

Guest post originally published on Humanitec’s blog by Kaspar von Grünberg, CEO at Humanitec We spoke to over 1850 engineering organizations last year. Most are planning to or already building an Internal Developer Platform. Here are the hardest…


How to security harden Kubernetes in 2022

Posted on June 7, 2022 | By Elastisys team

Guest post originally published on the Elastisys blog by the Elastisys team The NSA/CISA guidelines summarized, with Elastisys hands-on advice and real-world recommendations. Kubernetes is now the most popular container orchestration platform. Practically gone are the Mesoses and Docker…


KubeVirt becomes a CNCF incubating project

Posted on April 19, 2022

The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept KubeVirt as a CNCF incubating project.  KubeVirt enables users to run virtual machine workloads on top of Kubernetes in a Kubernetes-native way. It allows the migration of legacy…


Cloud Native Batch System Volcano moves to the CNCF Incubator

Posted on April 7, 2022

The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Volcano as a CNCF incubating project.  Volcano is a cloud native batch system and CNCF’s first batch computing project. It is developed to extend cloud native from micro…


Learn OpenTelemetry tracing with this lightweight microservices demo

Posted on April 4, 2022 | By Ramon Guiu and John Pruitt

Guest post originally published in the Timescale Blog by Ramon Guiu and John Pruitt OpenTelemetry is an open source observability framework for cloud-native service and infrastructure instrumentation hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It has gained a lot…


KoolKits – Kubernetes debugging re(image)ined

Posted on March 25, 2022

Guest post originally published on Lightrun’s blog by Tom Granot, Director of Developer Relations at Lightrun KoolKits (Kubernetes toolkits) are highly-opinionated, language-specific, batteries-included debug container images for Kubernetes. In practice, they’re what you would’ve installed on your production…


Leveraging Kubernetes to run databases, message queues and in-memory caches: How we built a truly portable platform

Posted on March 23, 2022

Guest post originally published on the Elastisys blog by the Elastisys team We increasingly meet CTOs and cloud architects in need of a secure platform that can run on multiple clouds or on-premise to meet customer requirements. A…


NSA & CISA Kubernetes hardening guide – what is new with version 1.1

Posted on March 18, 2022

Guest post originally published on ARMO’s blog by Leonid Sandler, CTO & Co-founder, ARMO In March 2022, NSA & CISA has issued a new version of the Kubernetes Hardening Guide – version 1.1. It updates the previous version that was released…