by Andrew Randall | Mar 20, 2018 | Blog, Calico, Calico Enterprise, Cloud Computing, Cloud Native, Cloud Security, Containers, GCP, Microsegmentation, Network Policy, Networking, Project Calico, Security, Tigera, Zerotrust
A best practice for securely deploying Kubernetes applications is to enforce network policy. Google’s announcement today that network policy for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) using Calico network policy is now generally available (GA) is a huge step forward for...
by Andrew Randall | Nov 29, 2017 | AWS, Cloud Computing, Eks, Kubernetes, Tigera
By now, you’ve probably already heard — at AWS re:invent this morning, AWS CEO Andy Jassy announced Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS). While some may dismiss this as Amazon being the last to the party, by dint of their dominance in the public cloud space...
by Casey Davenport | Sep 19, 2017 | AWS, Bgp, Calico, Cloud Computing
Most public cloud projects start off as a fairly well scoped project, a single cluster with limited or no connectivity requirements back to existing corporate resources or data centers. As such, they also have limited connectivity requirements external to the cluster....
by Christopher Liljenstolpe | Sep 5, 2017 | Cloud Computing, Cloud Native, Microsegmentation, Project Calico
A light in the mist In my previous post on this topic, I pointed out that the existing models for network workload isolation or micro-segmentation were, at best, sub-optimal for the new cloud native world, and, most probably, just plain would not work at scale. In...
by Mike Stowe | Jul 10, 2017 | Cloud Computing, Microservices, Scaling, Scaling Microservices
Welcome to Part 3 of the Cloud Native, Microservices, Security, & Scale Series. The year is 2008. It’s been 11 years since that fateful Apollo 13 rental by Reed Hastings Jr, and Netflix is quickly growing in popularity for its no-late fee, keep as long as you...
by Mike Stowe | Jul 10, 2017 | Cloud Computing, Enterprise, Microservices, Scaling, Scaling Microservices
Today I came across an advertisement for the Nutanix special edition book, “Enterprise Cloud for Dummies.” Of course, I couldn’t turn down a free book, so I immediately filled in my information to receive my complimentary copy (and I’m sure an awesome conversation via...
