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In the new Gartner Top 10 FAQs for CTOs on container and Kubernetes infrastructure report, there’s a strategic planning assumption that “by 2029, more than 95% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, which is a significant increase from less than 50% in 2023.” So is that it? Will container and Kubernetes …

Did you know that Kubernetes originally had no built-in features for managing user permissions, or that support for storing data persistently didn’t appear until Kubernetes was four years old?

If you deploy applications using Kubernetes – a platform that 96 percent of companies today report either using or considering – you’ll inevitably need to manage secrets securely inside Kubernetes. In some ways, this is a challenging task. Although Kubernetes provides some built-in capabilities to help manage secrets securely, these features have their limitations – …

SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) is an accepted best practice to map the components and dependencies of your applications in order to better understand your applications’ risks. SBOMs are used as a basis for vulnerability assessment, licensing compliance, and more. There are plenty of available tools, such as Aqua Trivy, that help you easily generate …

Kubernetes Version 1.26 was released with 37 new enhancements including 11 Stable, 10 Beta, 16 Alpha, and 12 features deprecated or removed. In this blog, we will highlight its most notable features and show how using Trivy will help you find deprecated Kubernetes resources.

With the release of Amazon EKS Anywhere (EKS-A) Bare Metal, Amazon Web Services has expanded the choices of infrastructure to deploy EKS Anywhere clusters using on-premise bare metal servers as a deployment target. In support of this, Aqua has worked to ensure that as customers adopt EKS Anywhere to automate Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management for …

With another Kubernetes release upon us, there are, as ever, a load of new features to consider. These include features to help companies use Windows containers securely and improvements in Kubernetes’ supply chain security. In this post, we’ll take a look at some of the more significant features of this release.

Following on from our previous post on the risks of privilege escalation in Kubernetes via the node/proxy resource, we’re going to take a look at how users who have rights to the certificate signing request (CSR) API in Kubernetes might be able to use them to escalate their privileges in a cluster. In addition to …

One of the side effects of Kubernetes’ rich API and extensive functionality is that sometimes there are security implications to granting users permissions. Security architects should be aware of these side effects when designing platforms that use Kubernetes. In recent research with Iain Smart of NCC Group, we looked at how granting rights to node/proxy …

In late January, the White House published a memo that lays the groundwork for creating a zero-trust architecture for federal agencies. With renewed attention from the US government, zero-trust networking is an area that many organizations are focusing on to improve their security posture. With that focus, it makes sense to understand where these principles …

Kubernetes’ role-based access control (RBAC) system is a cornerstone of cluster security. Most clusters use RBAC to determine which users have access to specific operations, and its core elements are well covered in the Kubernetes documentation. However, there are some less well-known features that could be relevant when creating or using tools designed to ensure …

GKE Autopilot is a new mode of operation in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) launched earlier this year to help DevOps teams focus their time and resources on building applications on Kubernetes, rather than on managing the infrastructure that the applications run on. As Aqua Security is a GKE selected security partner, customers can now run the Aqua platform seamlessly on a GKE Autopilot cluster. This can allow them to address …