As an operations engineer (SRE, IT manager, DevOps), you’re always struggling with how to manage technology and data sprawl. Kubernetes is becoming increasingly pervasive and a majority of these deployments will be in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), or Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Some of you may be on a single cloud while others will have the added burden of managing clusters on multiple Kubernetes cloud services.

Users live in the sunlit world of what they believe to be reality. But, there is, unseen by most, an underworld. A place that is just as real, but not as brightly lit. The Kernel Parameter side (apologies to George Romero). Kernel parameters aren’t really that scary in actuality, but they can be a dark and cobweb-filled corner of the Linux world. Kernel parameters are the means by which we can pass parameters to the Linux (or Unix-like) kernel to control how that it behaves.

October has, as usual, been a busy month, and Sysdig announced many new features. In Sysdig Monitor, we announced the release of four new Advisories and Yaml config support for Advisor. In Sysdig Secure, we released Severity filtering in Insights, Pod and Node activity view in Insight and four new Falco rules added to the Rules Library. Each of these are discussed in detail below.

The Kubewarden development team is happy to announce the release of the Kubewarden 1.3 stack. In addition to the usual amount of small fixes, this release focused on the following themes. If you’re not familiar with Kubewarden, it is a policy engine for Kubernetes. Its mission is to simplify the adoption of policy-as-code.

My father worked with some of the very first computers ever imported to Italy. It was a time when a technician was a temple of excellence built on three pillars: on-the-field experience, a bag of technical manuals, and a fully-stocked toolbox. It was not uncommon that missing the right manual or the correct replacement part turned into a day-long trip from the customers’ site to headquarters and back.