Damaso Sanoja, July 29, 2022
Keeping secrets secure on Kubernetes is crucial for every organization. However, it’s easier said than done.
This is the story of how three Appvia Engineers contributed so much to the KOPS project that they became authorizing contributors, more commonly known as maintainers. Read about why they needed KOPs and what challenges they faced, as well as the particular changes they made for their own needs and for the needs of the community. What are...
Overview The UK Home Office is a large government organisation, whose projects and services have historically been delivered by many different teams and suppliers, all with varying processes. By 2014 it was widely considered best-practice to utilise public cloud, as the community largely shifted in that direction. This widespread cloud adoption led to a mandated...
Sustainability is a topic that is becoming ever more prevalent in conversations spanning across industries, geographies and generations, particularly off the back of the Cop26 Summit held in late 2021. Whether it’s reducing fossil fuel consumption or something as simple as minimizing the consumption of single-use plastics, people are starting to take a look at how they...
This is a continuation of the PodSecurityPolicy is Dead, Long live…? article, which looks at how to construct the most effective policy for your Kubernetes infrastructure. Haven’t read that? Check it out first. Based on that foundation, this article looks at how versioning policies streamline the developer experience to deliver features and minimise downtime whilst meeting compliance requirements....
Introduction Following on from PodSecurityPolicy is Dead, Long Live…? this tutorial covers the practical use of a new tool from the Kubernetes Node Specialist Interest Group. The Linux kernel (the same marvel that brings us containers) provides a few capabilities for bridging the last mile in security management limiting the actual capabilities of the processes that are running....
TL;DR PodSecurityPolicy exists in Kubernetes to provide security controls for pods. PSPs are deprecated in 1.21 (April 2021) and will be removed entirely in 1.25 (expected around April 2022). This article explains what PSPs are and its alternatives. We created a PSP migration tool that translates existing PSPs to 3 different policy engines. This blog will also present why using...
From engineering to operations, Meet the Appvians is a series that shines a spotlight on the people behind our products: What they do, what they enjoy outside of work, and how they’ve experienced life at Appvia. For this edition, we caught up with Arron Duggins, Talent Acquisition Manager, on searching for (and cultivating) exceptional talent, what...
This article is a part of the Cloud Quick Wins series, which is a collection of small improvements that you can make today to save time, reduce your cloud costs and scale faster. The cloud has many benefits, one of them being the ability to pay only for what you use. So why is your bill so high,...
