Security News
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'.
Druva announced beta support for Kubernetes workloads which delivers complete application protection that is accessible by all teams, including the central IT team and DevOps. Now, instead of adopting yet another point backup tool specifically for Kubernetes, businesses can protect Kubernetes applications and their underlying infrastructure within Druva alongside their existing workloads.
RackWare is expanding its offering to allow businesses to easily migrate to and protect containers in the cloud. RackWare's new Kubernetes offering, SWIFT, augments RackWare's industry leading server migration and disaster recovery solutions, enabling the movement of containers from on-premise to the cloud, and from cloud-to-cloud.
Trilio announced that its application-centric data protection platform for Kubernetes will be available to IBM customers and partners. IBM clients can leverage IBM Cloud Pak for Data with TrilioVault for Kubernetes to protect container-based applications across hybrid cloud environments.
VMware unveiled the newest versions of its VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation desktop hypervisor solutions. "Developers can now slipstream Kubernetes applications from test/dev into production," said Lee Caswell, vice president, marketing, Cloud Platform Business Unit, VMware.
Platform9 announced key additional building blocks in delivering the next generation SaaS managed Kubernetes experience. New features include the industry's first managed Calico networking with API access, an application wizard for automated deployment of bare-metal Kubernetes clusters, and enhanced cluster monitoring and observability that provide better insights into all aspects of cluster behavior.
MayaData, the originator of the popular cloud-native projects OpenEBS and Litmus Chaos, announced Kubera, a new solution for the efficient operations management of Kubernetes as a data layer including logging, alerting, visualization, reporting, backups, maintenance, compliance checks, troubleshooting, and lifecycle automation. Dynamic visualizations of an entire Kubernetes environment, with point and click controls for capabilities such as snapshotting and cloning of data and compliance checks and alerts.
The Kubeflow open-source project is a popular framework for running machine-learning tasks in Kubernetes. Because Kubeflow is a containerized service, these various tasks run as containers in the Kubernetes cluster, and each can present a path for an attacker into the core Kubernetes architecture.
Security concerns remain prominent across all network environments, with some unique to the network edge, SDN, and other services. Securing subnets, switches, routers, and firewalls is a fairly traditional field, but security gets a lot tricker with such concepts as the network edge, software-defined networking and other newfangled services.
Identity protection provider Venafi this week announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Jetstack, a company specializing in open source machine identity protection software for Kubernetes. Jetstack, a Kubernetes professional services company and a contributor to the open-source community, was founded in 2015 in London.