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Open Policy Agent 101: A Beginner’s Guide

More than 90% of applications will be cloud-native by 2023. As organizations transition from monolithic, on-premises environments to dynamic cloud-based ones, ensuring access control becomes more critical—and complex. That’s why I co-created ...
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Introduction to Open Policy Agent (OPA)

Recent decades have seen organizations adopt various types of software applications along the road to digitalization. Some of these applications face end users and others are used by internal operators. And, more ...
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Best of 2023: The Ultimate List of Open Source Cloud-Native Tools

As we close out 2023, we at Cloud Native Now wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2023 ...
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Securing the Software Supply Chain For Policy-as-Code

Since emerging as a graduated CNCF project last year, the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project has been adopted in a wide variety of scenarios: Kubernetes admission control (gatekeeper), policy enforcement over configuration ...
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The State of Policy Management In Kubernetes

Kubernetes is enabling powerful container orchestration capabilities for many organizations. But with this power comes great responsibility. Securing Kubernetes access is crucial to meet compliance requirements and avoid data leaks. And a ...
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Nirmata Delivers Cloud-Native Policy Management Platform

Nirmata today announced general availability of the Nirmata Cloud Native Policy Management platform based on a Kyverno policy engine that runs natively in Kubernetes. Ritesh Patel, vice president of products for Nirmata, ...
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Kubermatic Extends Open Source K8s Management Platforms

Kubermatic has updated both the open source Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform (KKP) and KubeOne platform for cluster life cycle management as part of an effort to make it simpler to manage fleets of ...
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Sysdig Acquires Apolicy to Automate Container Security

Sysdig today announced it intends to acquire Apolicy to add an ability to automate remediation of container infrastructure misconfigurations provisioned using tools such as Terraform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed ...
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Loft Labs Launches Open Source K8s Compliance Project

Loft Labs today launched jsPolicy as an open source project to enable compliance in Kubernetes environments to be achieved using code written in JavaScript. Lukas Gentele, Loft Labs CEO, says jsPolicy differs ...
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Accurics Applies Policy as Code to Secure Kubernetes Clusters

Accurics is employing policy as code to address a Kubernetes vulnerability, using its Terrascan tool for securing infrastructure as code. Terrascan is Accurics’ open source, static code analysis tool that allows developers to ...