Alternatives to consider before investing in service meshes
4 alternatives to service meshes which – in our experience – are closer to what…
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Why We Selected Thanos for Long Term Metrics Storage
Long-term Metrics Storage: Thanos vs. Cortex vs. InfluxDB vs. M3DB vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. TimescaleDB Why…
HOWTO stop running containers as root
Running containers as root is a bad idea for security. This has been shown time…
Istio and OAuth2-Proxy in Kubernetes for microservice authentication
HOWTO use Istio and OAuth2-Proxy to secure all your micro-service endpoints in a centralized and…
DevOps: Why it is misunderstood & what it always should have been
We discuss the difference in skill sets between developers and platform operators. And what a…
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Free Guide: How to Operate a Secure Kubernetes Platform
This guide discusses the four most important aspects when operating a secure Kubernetes platform.
Free Guide: How to security harden Kubernetes in 2022
How to security harden Kubernetes in 2022. The NSA/CISA guidelines summarized, with Elastisys hands-on advice…
Free Guide: Our 15 Principles for Designing and Deploying Scalable Applications on Kubernetes
Our 15 principles for how to design and deploy cloud native applications on Kubernetes -…
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Operating Secure Kubernetes Platforms: Disaster Recovery
Operating secure Kubernetes platforms requires ability to recover from when disaster strikes. Preparation in the form of frequent backups and training are key to success.
Process for Passing the BSI IT-Grundschutz Audit
Learn how Elastisys helped Data4Life, a German non-profit HealthTech company, establish a process that helped them pass the BSI IT-Grundschutz audit.
Operating Secure Kubernetes Platforms: Alerting Culture
Operating secure Kubernetes platforms requires an alerting culture of clear, prioritized, actionable alerts supporting administrators 24/7.
Edge Computing with Avassa and Elastisys Compliant Kubernetes
Learn how to design a two-tiered application for edge and cloud with Avassa and Elastisys Compliant Kubernetes in this white-paper.
Enable Open Policy Agent (OPA) Policies
Learn how to ensure that your application follows security best practices by enabling the OPA-enforced safeguards in Compliant Kubernetes.
Finding Vulnerabilities using eBPF Probes in Python Using ARVOS
We explored the functionality, accuracy, performance and usability of function call tracing in Python using ARVOS to detect the runtime usage of known vulnerable code. We found that the approach is functional with 100% accuracy, but with an unfortunate 50% decrease in the performance of the traced application.
