August 2020 cloud-native news

Hello, from all of us at Sysdig!

It’s already time to say goodbye to Summer 2020! In this edition, we invite you to catch up on the highlights from the recent virtual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 event and celebrate the success our customers enjoy with Sysdig Secure DevOps platform.

• Customer spotlight
• Industry buzz
• What’s new in the community?
• What’s new with Sysdig?
• Meet us online

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Customer spotlight

Industry buzz

Catch some notable highlights from Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020

Keynote: Open Source Intrusion Detection for Containers at Shopify – Shane Lawrence, Senior Security Infrastructure Engineer, Shopify & Kris Nóva, Chief Open Source Advocate, Sysdig

In this talk, Shane describes how Shopify first deployed Falco in 2018 and continues to use it to monitor critical systems, including those that process payment card information (PCI).

OpenID Connect as SSO Solution: Strengths and Weaknesses

In this talk, Alvaro Iradier explains the basic concepts of OIDC, how it works, how it compares to other federated authentication systems like SAML, and some integration examples like Harbor and Kubernetes.

50 days from zero to hero with Kubernetes

With this guide from Microsoft Azure, In just 50 days, you’ll understand the basics of Kubernetes and get hands-on experience with its various components, capabilities, and solutions, including Azure Kubernetes Service.

CNCF Webinar: Getting started with container runtime security using Falco

Need to protect Kubernetes? Join Sysdig CTO Loris Degioanni for an exciting discussion and demonstration about Cloud native runtime security, Falco’s adoption to-date and outlook ahead!

What’s new in the community?

What’s new in Kubernetes 1.19?

Kubernetes 1.19 is about to be released! Read this blog to catch up on all the exciting new developments and detailed editor’s pick features coming your way!

Falco Update: What’s new in Falco?

Falco 0.25 is releasing this week, read this blog to learn about the top 5 new features in this release

How we migrated Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy?

This blog post discusses the old Nginx-based traffic infrastructure, its pain points, and the benefits gained by migrating to Envoy.

Introducing Contour: Routing traffic to applications in Kubernetes

Learn about Contour – a simple and scalable open source ingress controller for routing traffic to applications running in Kubernetes.

 

What’s New with Sysdig?

Sysdig 2020 container security snapshot: Key image scanning and configuration insights

After analyzing 100,000 containers in production, we’ve uncovered container security risks and best practices that aren’t being followed. How does your environment compare to other production environments? Check out the container security snapshot blog.

Automate registry scanning with Harbor & Sysdig

Discover what registry scanning is, how it helps with shifting security left, and how you can implement it using Harbor and Sysdig.

How to monitor etcd?

Kubernetes etcd is a core part of the Kubernetes control plane. It is important to monitor it to ensure your services perform as expected. Learn how to achieve this with this insightful blog post.

 

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