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Red Hat Partners With DOE Labs to Advance HPC Containers
Red Hat this week announced it has allied with multiple U.S. Department of Energy laboratories to advance the adoption of containers in high-performance computing (HPC) environments. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore ...

Securing the Software Supply Chain For Policy-as-Code
Since emerging as a graduated CNCF project last year, the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project has been adopted in a wide variety of scenarios: Kubernetes admission control (gatekeeper), policy enforcement over configuration ...

Shipa Module Surfaces K8s Security and Compliance Issues
Shipa today added a Shipa Insights module to its cloud platform to provide additional visibility into Kubernetes security and compliance policy enforcement across all workloads. Ravi Lachhman, field CTO at Shipa, says ...

Auth In the Age of Kubernetes
Kubernetes! It seems like the whole world is excited about this new software deployment platform. And why not? From the docs, we know that “Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open source platform ...

What to Expect When You Go Cloud-Native
Many organizations today have made the choice to adopt cloud-native applications and architectures and are seeing positive results. But some are still struggling with adoption challenges including increased complexity, costs and an ...

9 CNCF Tools For Automation and Configuration
One element growing in importance in the cloud-native stack is provisioning. As software delivery timelines accelerate, there is a greater need to quickly automate and configure computing environments. Applying standard configurations across ...

Weaveworks Allies With Microsoft to Advance GitOps Adoption
At the Microsoft Build 2022 conference this week, Weaveworks and Microsoft announced that the Weave GitOps Flux 2 platform has been integrated with both the Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and the ...

Understanding Container Security – Part Two: Security Recommendations
In part one of this series, we discussed the rise in container security threats. As containers have gained in popularity, they’ve also provided an expanding attack surface. We explored why so many ...

Microsoft Expands Azure Services Portfolio for Containers
At the Microsoft Build 2022 conference, Microsoft today announced that Azure Container Apps, a serverless computing framework based on Kubernetes, is now generally available. At the same time, Microsoft revealed it has ...

Understanding Container Security – Part One: Security Gaps
In our recent interview with Aqua Security’s Rory McCune about CRI-O vulnerability CVE-2022-0811, he mentioned that he’d seen a sharp rise in container cybersecurity threats this year. His experience isn’t unusual; last ...