Robert Brennan is director of open source software at Fairwinds, a cloud-native infrastructure solution provider. He focuses on the development of open source tools that abstract the complexity from underlying infrastructure to enable an optimal experience for developers. Before Fairwinds, he worked as a software engineer at Google in AI and natural language processing. He is the co-founder of DataFire.io, an open source platform for building API’s and integrations, and LucyBot, developer of a suite of automated API documentation solutions deployed by Fortune 500 companies. He is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Engineering where he focused on machine learning.

Are Your Kubernetes Workloads Secure? Unsettling Trends in Latest Benchmark

Are Your Kubernetes Workloads Secure? Unsettling Trends in Latest Benchmark

The World Economic Forum says that, despite the economic downturn, we should be prioritizing digital transformation because it enables growth and innovation. Inevitably, digital transformation plans today rely on the scalability and ...
| | benchmark, container security, Fairwinds, kubernetes, Kubernetes workloads
Docker, vulnerabilities, supply chain, KubeCon, SigStore, Kubernetes TrapX container security

Best of 2022: 4 Best Practices for Kubernetes Reliability

As we close out 2022, we at Container Journal wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. One ...
| | container misconfigurations, container security, Fairwinds, kubernetes
NSA Guidance

NSA Security Best Practices for Kubernetes

In this series, I’ve outlined why every organization should care about the NSA’s Kubernetes Hardening Guidelines and examined different areas of the guidelines. What you may suspect is that most of the ...
| | container security, container security best practices, kubernetes, NSA
Kubernetes

NSA Wants Strong Kubernetes Authentication and Authorization 

When I want to get into my phone, I use a passcode or face ID to authenticate. When I want to get into my home, I use a key because no person ...
| | container security, hardening guidelines, kubernetes, NSA
NSA Guidance

The NSA Wants the Network Locked Down

The NSA’s Kubernetes Hardening Guide offers a lot of advice on implementing the best defense-in-depth approach to your workloads. Part of that guide outlines how Kubernetes users can secure and harden the ...
| | container hardening, kubernetes, networking, NSA
NSA Guidance

NSA’s Kubernetes Hardening Guidelines and Pod Security

I previously asked (and answered) the question, What Are the NSA K8s Guidelines and Why Should You Care? I suggested that the first step to compliance is to understand your Kubernetes environment ...
| | cloud native security, container security, kubernetes hardening, NSA
security compliance, NSA Kubernetes stateful kubernetes k8s Kublr

What Are the NSA K8s Guidelines and Why Should You Care?

The NSA released its Kubernetes Hardening Guidelines almost a year ago and made updates to it this March. The purpose of the document is to provide an overview of what Kubernetes users ...
| | kubernetes, kubernetes hardening, National Security Agency, NSA
kubernetes efficiency cloud workload butterfly

Kubernetes Config and Efficiency: The Butterfly Effect

Ever heard of the butterfly effect? In chaos theory, it happens when a tiny change in one sensitive initial condition has a huge impact down the line. The butterfly effect is a ...
| | chaos engineering, cloud efficiency, cloud native, kubernetes
Fairwinds culture enablement Kubernetes service ownership

Culture and Enablement in Kubernetes Service Ownership

The topic of Kubernetes service ownership is not a simple one, as the model contains many parts. But when service ownership is successfully mastered within an organization, it can become a robust ...
| | culture, Fairwinds, kubernetes, service ownership
container security

Why Kubernetes Service Ownership is the Answer to Container Security

Full-service ownership is a hot topic right now in Kubernetes, as it revolves around the need for better container security. At the center of the discussion is the question of how this ...
| | container security best practices, Fairwinds, kubernetes, service ownership