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Open Policy Agent: What Is OPA and How It Works (Examples)

Open Policy Agent is an open-source engine that provides a way of declaratively writing policies as code and then using those policies as part of a decision-making process. OPA can be used for several purposes:🔹 Authorization of REST API endpoints.🔹 Allowing or denying Terraform changes based on compliance or safety rules.🔹 Integrating custom authorization logic… Continue reading Open Policy Agent: What Is OPA and How It Works (Examples)

The Evolution of Distributed Systems on Kubernetes 

Future distributed systems on Kubernetes will be composed of multiple runtimes. The business logic forms the application’s core, and sidecar “mecha” components offer robust out-of-the-box distributed primitives. What about what comes after microservices? According to Bilgin Ibryam, a product manager and former architect at Red Hat and a member of The Apache Software Foundation: Probably multi-runtime, or Mecha architecture,… Continue reading The Evolution of Distributed Systems on Kubernetes 

GitOps on Kubernetes: Deciding Between Argo CD and Flux

Argo CD and Flux both have their uses, and both are pretty well maintained and have active communities. Similarities:🔹 Secrets Management🔹 Webhook Receivers🔹 Alerting and Notifications🔹 Image Updates Automation Differences:🔸 Installation/Bootstrapping🔸 Reconciliation Configurability🔸 Application Delivery🔸 Web UI🔸 RBAC🔸 Multicluster Both Argo CD and Flux projects have stemmed from delivering a choice in tools to GitOps… Continue reading GitOps on Kubernetes: Deciding Between Argo CD and Flux

Introduction to Kubernetes Components and K8s Architecture

When you have hundreds to thousands of containers serving a lot of microservices, K8s allows you to monitor and manage (orchestrate) all those containers in an easy way allowing fault-tolerance, high availability, disaster recovery, and high performance. There are two ways to interact with the K8s API: 1- UI (Kubernetes dashboard) 2- CLI (Kubectl). These… Continue reading Introduction to Kubernetes Components and K8s Architecture

A Visual Guide on Troubleshooting Kubernetes Deployments

Troubleshooting in Kubernetes can be daunting if you don’t know where to start. I attached a visual guide to help you troubleshoot Kubernetes deployments. It covers:🔹 Connecting Deployment and Service🔹 Connecting Service and Ingress🔹 Troubleshooting Pods🔹 Common Pods errors🔹 Troubleshooting Services🔹 Troubleshooting Ingress The same debugging techniques in the guide can be applied to other… Continue reading A Visual Guide on Troubleshooting Kubernetes Deployments

Security & Compliance Showcase w/ FALCO, KYNERO, CURIEFENSE, & MORE

CNCF Security & Compliance Product Showcase w/ FALCO, KYNERO, CURIEFENSE, & MORE This meetup will look at some of the most popular security and compliance projects under the CNCF umbrella. These tools can help teams apply policy management, check CVEs, ensure regulatory compliance, protect web traffic, secure frequent software patching, automate TLS issuances, and other… Continue reading Security & Compliance Showcase w/ FALCO, KYNERO, CURIEFENSE, & MORE

Project Showcase w/ KEDA, DAPR, SPIRE, CONTOUR & MORE

# CNCF Incubating Project Showcase w/ KEDA, DAPR, SPIRE, CONTOUR & More Confirmed projects so far are KEDA Dapr SPIRE Contour Event Details: ZOOM WEBINAR LINK: https://www.meetup.com/cloudnativescale/ Date & Time: Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 10:30 PM to Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 12:00 AM IST

Scaling Observability: GRAFANA LABS, POLAR SIGNALS, & PIXIE LABS

Tales from the front lines of scaling observability panel discussion w/ GRAFANA LABS, POLAR SIGNALS, & PIXIE LABS 📅 Date: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022📍 Time: 10 am PST to 11:30 am PST (1:00 – 2:30 pm EST)📺Venue: Zoom Webinar Speakers: 🔶 Joe Elliot, Principal Engineer at Grafana Labs 🔶 Frederic Branczyk, CEO and Founder at Polar Signals… Continue reading Scaling Observability: GRAFANA LABS, POLAR SIGNALS, & PIXIE LABS

SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY: Securing Integrity of Software Supply Chains

📅 Date: Tuesday, March 8th, 2021📍 Time: 10 am PST to 11:30 am PST (1:00 – 2:30 pm EST) Securing a software supply chain is a complex task. There are many moving parts, external dependencies, difficulties to ensure all holes are plugged tight and sometimes it seems that the least goes on and on forever. Fortunately, there are… Continue reading SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY: Securing Integrity of Software Supply Chains

Building an Application-centric Kubernetes Platform for Enterprise Scale

Building an Application-centric Kubernetes Platform for Enterprise Scale, w/ Todd Ekenstam of Intuit, and our host will be Michael Bowen of BlackRock. 📅 Date: Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022📍 Time: 10 am PST to 11:30 am PST (1:00 – 2:30 pm EST) Over the past several years, Intuit has migrated to Kubernetes running in the public cloud and now has… Continue reading Building an Application-centric Kubernetes Platform for Enterprise Scale