Echo today revealed it has acquired technology assets from Minimus, a provider of hardened open source container images, that earlier this week revealed it is shutting down. Those assets will later be incorporated into a rival offering from Echo, which also provides hardened virtual machines, open source libraries, serverless functions,
Cloud-native environments rarely become complex overnight. In most teams, complexity builds gradually. A platform may begin with containers and a basic deployment process, then grow to include orchestration, CI/CD, observability, security controls, service discovery, policy management, automation, and additional infrastructure components. Each addition can solve a legitimate problem. The challenge
The standard process of building governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) programs has been straightforward: define a control, document a control, test the control on a regular basis, and generate a report for the auditor 1-2 times a year. This worked in the context where the IT infrastructure was changing slowly,
If you’re running a multi-AZ Kubernetes cluster with a service mesh on top, there’s a good chance you’re paying a tax you never signed up for, and it won’t show up as a line item on any dashboard you’re already watching. The Default Nobody Configures Kubernetes Services and Istio’s Envoy
