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Kubernetes: Securing Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments

Kubernetes is widely used to re-architect traditional applications. Many organizations first set up Kubernetes within their on-prem environment and then later expand to the public cloud. This hybrid environment often creates security and compliance challenges with workloads. Join this webinar to learn how to leverage universal security policy definition that works across a hybrid environment.

Container Logging & Devops: the Future of Kubernetes Integration

I hosted a webinar where I covered why logging is important, how to choose a logging provider. And then shared our experience of setting up logging on Kubernetes containers, the Kubernetes logging framework and the logging best practices we’ve implemented internally and supported our customers who run Kubernetes in production.

Falco 0.13.0 Released: Kubernetes Audit Events Support

We recently released Falco 0.13.0, which is probably the most exciting release since Falco’s 0.1.0 release almost two and a half years ago. With 0.13.0, we’re adding support for a second stream of events — Kubernetes Audit Events. This release also lays the groundwork for additional event sources to be easily added.

Why Kubelet TLS Bootstrap in Kubernetes 1.12 is a Very Big Deal

Kubelet TLS Bootstrap, an exciting and highly-anticipated feature in Kubernetes 1.12, is graduating to general availability. As you know, the Kubernetes orchestration system provides such key benefits as service discovery, load balancing, rolling restarts, and the ability to maintain container counts by replacing failed containers. And by using Kubernetes-compliant extensions, you can seamlessly enhance system functionality.

Pro Tips: Using Prometheus and Grafana for Monitoring Power Usage

Sure, thousands of technologists around the world are using Prometheus and Grafana to monitor their business systems. But how about putting these technologies to work at home? Erwin de Keijzer, a Linux engineer at the Dutch consulting firm Snow, gave a talk at GrafanaCon EU about how he used Prometheus and Grafana to monitor the power usage… of his washing machine. “This is a talk that’s a bit different scale than we’ve heard so far” at GrafanaCon, he quipped.