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Kubernetes 1.26 - What's new?

Kubernetes 1.26 is about to be released, and it comes packed with novelties! Where do we begin? This release brings 37 enhancements, on par with the 40 in Kubernetes 1.25 and the 46 in Kubernetes 1.24. Of those 37 enhancements, 11 are graduating to Stable, 10 are existing features that keep improving, 16 are completely new, and one is a deprecated feature. Watch out for all the deprecations and removals in this version!

What's New in Sysdig - November 2022

Content What’s New in Sysdig is back again with the November 2022 edition! I am Matt Shirilla, an Enterprise Sales Engineer based in Texas, and I am very excited to update you with the latest feature releases from Sysdig. For Sysdig Monitor, this month brings new filtering for AWS Cloudwatch Metric Streams and a new Lambda Extension for AWS Lambda Telemetry API , plus the release of new Advisories.

Understanding Kubernetes Limits and Requests

When working with containers in Kubernetes, it’s important to know what are the resources involved and how they are needed. Some processes will require more CPU or memory than others. Some are critical and should never be starved. Kubernetes defines Limits as the maximum amount of a resource to be used by a container. Requests, on the other hand, are the minimum guaranteed amount of a resource that is reserved for a container.

How to Monitor Kubernetes API Server

Content Learning how to monitor the Kubernetes API server is crucial when running cloud-native applications in Kubernetes environments. The Kubernetes API server can be considered as the front end of the Kubernetes control plane. Any interaction or request from users or internal Kubernetes components with the control plane go through this component. Ensuring you monitor the Kubernetes API server properly is of vital importance to ensure your Kubernetes cluster works as expected.

AWS recognizes Sysdig as an Amazon Linux 2022 Service Ready Partner

Sysdig is pleased to announce that we’ve achieved the Amazon Linux 2022 Ready designation as part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program. Amazon Linux 2022 (AL2022) is the newest Linux operating system from AWS available to support your workloads running on Amazon EC2. The team at Sysdig validated AL2022 with Sysdig Secure and Sysdig Monitor to ensure full support for our container security and cloud-native monitoring capabilities with this latest OS.

Three multi-tenant isolation boundaries of Kubernetes

Many of the benefits of running Kubernetes come from the efficiencies that you get when you share the cluster – and thus the underlying compute and network resources it manages – between multiple services and teams within your organization. Each of these major services or teams that share the cluster are tenants of the cluster – and thus this approach is referred to as multi-tenancy.

Tales from the Kernel Parameter Side

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.

What's new in Sysdig - October 2022

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.

Should you put all your trust in the tools?

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.