Bill Doerrfeld is a tech journalist and analyst. His beat is cloud technologies, specifically the web API economy. He began researching APIs as an Associate Editor at ProgrammableWeb, and since 2015 has been the Editor at Nordic APIs, a high-impact blog on API strategy for providers. He loves discovering new trends, interviewing key contributors, and researching new technology. He also gets out into the world to speak occasionally.
Leveling Up Container Security with Security-as-Code
As more organizations adopt a microservices deployment model, they’re also adopting infrastructure-as-code (IaC) to streamline continuous delivery. IaC codifies configurations to automate the deployment and provisioning of services. But how about security-as-code? ...
How Linkerd Approaches Extensibility
Balancing minimalism with the pressure to deliver new features is not a concern unique to service mesh. It’s a question any team overseeing well-adopted open-source software must address at some point. Still, ...
5 Values That Define Kubernetes Culture
Adoption of Kubernetes, the popular container orchestrator, continues to expand and the technology evolve to meet the needs of new distributed architectures. Throughout this evolution, one thing that has remained intrinsic to ...
Insecure Defaults Remain a Threat for Kubernetes
Secure-by-default settings make it easier (and safer) to onboard cloud-native technologies. And, thankfully, most default security profiles and configurations are, often, quite solid. Take Istio, which is secure by default and built ...
K8s and Cloud Security: Compliance Just Ain’t Enough
Over just two years, breaches caused by cloud misconfigurations exposed 33.5 billion records and generated an estimated $5 trillion in damages. Amid rising cyberattacks and novel vulnerabilities, overlooking cloud and K8s security ...
As API Threats Multiply, Cybersecurity Lags
Things are heating up for APIs. API-based startups are catching the eye of investors. Forbes recently called the API economy the “next big thing.” But as they multiply, so do security threats ...
Best of 2020: VMware Releases State of Kubernetes 2020 Report
As we close out 2020, we at Container Journal wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the fourth in our series of the Best of 2020 ...
Service Mesh Not 100% Ready for Wide Adoption
A panel of service mesh experts weigh in on how service meshes are maturing Service mesh is like an electric car—your friends talk about it, it’s hip, but you don’t have one ...
Extending the Envoy Proxy With WebAssembly
As the service mesh landscape continues to grow, its underlying technology stack is maturing as well. For example, service mesh advocates are introducing methods to extend Envoy, the open source proxy at ...
What Will It Take to Shift Kubernetes Security Left?
Considering Kubernetes security must come earlier in the development journey Interest in Kubernetes has skyrocketed. A recent CNCF study found 84% of companies run containers in production, and 78% are using Kubernetes ...
