Microservices, especially cloud-native, container-based microservices have radically changed how applications are built and deployed. This shift has been driven by a number of positives that container-based microservices provide (eg. speed, portability, …). However, traditional monitoring tools don’t’ work with these new systems. The service mesh concept (and in particular the …
A look at container security assumptions and realities.
Many people are still parroting the “containers are fundamentally insecure” mantra while clearly not understanding the current state of the container development state. Since the start of the Docker-driven container revival, a host of useful tools have been developed to enhance container security. Nowadays, the larger security risks when deploying …