Security News > 2020 > October > Azure Kubernetes Service Now Supports Confidential Containers
Microsoft this week announced the public preview of support for confidential computing nodes in Azure Kubernetes Service.
One of the big tech companies to have affirmed commitment to computing confidentiality, Microsoft made Azure Confidential Computing generally available earlier this year, and also expanded the availability of secure VMs. The availability of confidential containers on AKS is yet another step Microsoft is taking toward moving computing from 'in the clear' to 'confidential'.
"The public preview of confidential computing nodes powered by the Intel SGX DCsv2 SKU with Azure Kubernetes Service brings us one step closer by securing data of cloud native and container workloads. This release extends the data integrity, data confidentiality and code integrity protection of hardware-based isolated Trusted Execution Environments to container applications," the company says.
"The confidential nodes on AKS support both architecture models and will orchestrate confidential application and standard container applications within the same AKS deployment. Also, developers can continue to leverage existing tooling and dev ops practices when designing highly secure end-to-end applications," the tech company explains.
So far during the preview period, most developers adopted confidential computing by selecting an existing unmodified docker container application and a partner to move an existing application into a container that leverages confidential computing infrastructure.