Articles : Dave Blakey

The introduction of containers has revolutionized the software development industry and made building, testing, and deploying applications significantly easier. However, modern applications and infrastructure require an ever-growing number of containers and servers. These generate such a volume of logs and information that monitoring everything is a massive challenge. Deadlines, inexperience, culture, and management are just some of the obstacles that can affect how successful teams are at overcoming this challenge. 

Kubernetes has been a revelation for companies working with containers. It makes container orchestration consistent, which can streamline development and make CI/CD processes more reliable. However, your success depends on more than developing containerized applications and integrating Kubernetes into your CI tooling. You still need to consider how you will deploy your containers into a production environment. This process can be just as challenging as introducing containers into your software architecture in the first place.

If you are thinking of deploying applications in containers and using a container orchestration platform like Kubernetes, you must consider security. Smaller and simpler apps will reduce your development, testing, and maintenance costs – but security can be more challenging when compared with deploying in VMs. 

Kubernetes is a popular tool for container orchestration. But why are so many companies choosing to use Kubernetes, and what benefit does it offer software development and DevOps teams?

The Envoy community announced Envoy Gateway at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Europe. The Envoy Gateway is a new project intended to improve support for Kubernetes deployments via the new Kubernetes Gateway API, the next generation Kubernetes Ingress.

Given that we protect APIs, websites, apps, and the like from hackers and denial of service attacks, you can imagine that the last week has been an interesting time for Snapt. We've largely stayed quiet, but we're often asked questions like "what are you seeing from Russia?" and so on. The answers are often counterintuitive.

About a quarter of all web traffic comes not from human users but from automated bots – some good, some bad.

As many of you will already know, the Log4j vulnerability has been making waves in the industry. We put out a post last week on how we mitigate the attack (read more on CVE-2021-44228) but something we haven't spoken about is how effective our threat intelligence platform has been at preventing the attack, and the insights from a platform like NovaSense.

We've spoken recently about threat intelligence and the role it plays in protecting organizations, platform infrastructure, data, and transactions from various cyber threats. However, it is important to understand the particular use cases, so you can apply threat intelligence to solve specific security challenges in your organization.