Category: Kubernetes
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Scarleteel Threat Targets AWS Fargate, Launches DDoS and Cryptojacking Campaigns
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The Scarleteel threat targets AWS Fargate environments for data theft and more malicious types of attacks such as cryptojacking and DDoS. Learn how to mitigate this threat. Image: sarayut_sy/Shutterstock Sysdig, a cloud and container security company, has released a new report on the Scarleteel threat that targets specific AWS environments for data theft and additional…
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Cilium Mesh: A new way to extend Kubernetes benefits across on-premises and cloud networking
Image: Ar_TH/Adobe Stock Networking has long been the holdout in enterprise aspirations toward high-performance, multicloud or hybrid architectures. While such architectures were once aspirational marketing buzzwords, they are today’s enterprise reality. Now, with the launch of Cilium Mesh, enterprises get “a new universal networking layer to connect workloads and machines across cloud, on-prem and edge.”…
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Dell brings more cloud products under APEX umbrella
APEX Navigator for Kubernates and more join Dell’s hybrid and multicloud software-as-a-service family. Image: mrinal/Adobe Stock Dell reconfigured several of its multicloud and hybrid services under the APEX brand name as part of the suite of announcements at Dell Technologies World on May 22. The change is in response to customer demand for large-scale multicloud…
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First Dero cryptojacking campaign targets unprotected Kubernetes instances
Learn how this cryptocurrency campaign operates and its scope. Then, get tips on protecting vulnerable Kubernetes instances from this cybersecurity threat. Image: Pixabay The cybersecurity company CrowdStrike has observed the first-ever Dero cryptojacking campaign. The attack targets Kubernetes clusters that were accessible on the internet and allowed anonymous access to the Kubernetes API. Jump to:…
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Kubernetes is the key to cloud, but cost containment is critical
What’s driving the growth of open source container orchestrator Kubernetes? A study by Pepperdata shows how companies are using K8s and the challenges they face in getting a handle on cloud costs. Image: LuckyStep/Adobe Stock With the rush to cloud enterprise comes increasing use of Kubernetes to get applications up and running on the web.…
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Contained excitement, Kubernetes at the edge: Civo is taking this space one notch louder
Image: phonlamaiphoto/Adobe Stock The computing edge is massive. This core truism means that we often work in this space with an inherently disaggregated but essentially connected variety of endpoints, all functioning away in the neural nodes of cyberspace across the Internet of Things, cloud backbone and wider expanses of the known universe. The nature of…
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How to easily deploy a full-stack application in Portainer with templates
Deploying a complex Docker stack isn’t nearly as challenging as you think, at least when Portainer is your GUI of choice. Find out how easy this is with Portainer templates. Image: BalanceFormCreative/Adobe Stock When you think of deploying a full-stack, containerized application, you probably expect it to be a tedious and complicated task of manually…
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How to create and manage Kubernetes Secrets in Portainer
Instead of keeping Secrets in Kubernetes manifests, store them separately. Portainer makes this quite simple; I’ll show you how in this tutorial. Image: tostphoto/Adobe Stock When you’re building and deploying Kubernetes services and pods, you sometimes have to use a secret, such as a password, an API key or a third-party access token. You certainly…
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How to add a new development environment to Portainer
If you’ve deployed Portainer as a Kubernetes development platform and want to add a different environment, you’re in luck — the process is quite simple. portainer-add-development-environment Recently, I outlined how to deploy Portainer to a MicroK8s Kubernetes cluster. The process is surprisingly easy and goes a long way to strip the complications from Kubernetes. That…
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How to use Helm charts with Portainer
With Portainer, deploying Kubernetes services with Helm charts is as simple as it gets. Find out how it’s done. Image: Song_about_summer/Adobe Stock Helm was created to simplify Kubernetes; MicroK8s was created to ease the complexity of Kubernetes deployment; Portainer was created to simplify container deployment. If you put those three things together, you have the…