Kubernetes comes with a sophisticated system for ensuring secure access by users and system components through an API. We look at the options for authentication, authorization, and access control.
Extending your data center temporarily into the cloud during a customer rush might not be easy, but it can be done, thanks to Ansible's Playbooks and some AWS scripts.
Grafana's Loki is a good replacement candidate for the Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana combination in Kubernetes environments.
Ceph distributed storage and Kubernetes container orchestration come together with Rook.
Red Hat launched the brand new OpenShift 4 with a number of changes that might suggest upgrading or even getting your feet wet if you've stayed out of the pool so far.
Security segmentation into zones has long been the norm in data centers. Microsoft Azure Network Security Groups offers this kind of granular defense-in-depth security, including multilevel configuration of access rules.
The right combination of mostly free automation and monitoring tools can create a self-healing system, in which your servers fix themselves.
Many admins consider Kubernetes the obvious choice for managing containers; however, don't ignore the highly efficient alternatives just because they are less prominent.
Azure Active Directory privileged identity management provides just enough administration for admins to carry out their work, while minimizing the possibility of security breaches through privileged admin accounts.
Firecracker combines the security and isolation of real VMs with the light weight of containers.
