containers
Securing Container Images Across the CI/CD Pipeline
The Log4j vulnerability was a good reminder that securing cloud-native applications requires ensuring container images are free of critical vulnerabilities. When Log4j went public, security teams struggled to quickly understand which of ...
AWS Extends GuardDuty Reach to Cloud-Native Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week extended the reach of its Amazon GuardDuty cybersecurity threat detection service to its Kubernetes distribution and the Lambda serverless framework in addition to Amazon Aurora databases ...
Making Sure Your Cloud-Native Applications Can Fail
Make sure your applications can fail. Sounds weird, doesn’t it? But nothing is more critical to creating a highly reliable, cloud-native application than to ensure you can fail successfully. The key is ...
Securing Containers: Security Testing, API Gateway, Service Mesh and More
Containers are a way to package and distribute software applications. They allow for the isolation of dependencies and system libraries, making it easier to run the application consistently across different environments, such ...
Containers vs. Bare Metal, VMs and Serverless
As I explained in my prior blog, Containers Practices Gap Assessment, containerizing software is valuable for DevOps. Yet, as I work with clients on their DevOps journeys, I continue to encounter organizations that ...
Containers Vs. Virtual Machines: Why Containers are More Popular
Imagine a ship carrying cars wrapped with different layers of packaging materials. Now imagine that same ship, but the cars are not wrapped and are just stacked on top of each other ...
Modernizing? Containers are Not Enough; You Need Cloud Native
Many people reading this article already understand the value containers bring to their applications. Most have even implemented a container-based operations infrastructure for their applications. Containers provide a lightweight and platform-agnostic way ...
Keeping Container Applications Secure in the Cloud
The world of cloud computing has revolutionized the way organizations build, deploy, and run their applications. At the heart of this revolution are containers, which offer numerous benefits like scalability, portability, and ...
Welcome To Cloud Native Now!
Today, we rebranded our Container Journal publication to Cloud Native Now. This was a move that was a long time coming. Since we launched Container Journal a few years ago, the cloud-native ...
Kubernetes Security: The Two-Question Test
As we approach KubeConEU 2023, it’s useful to look back at all the progress that’s been made with Kubernetes since the original KubeCon in 2015. We’ve seen the project mature over 26 ...
