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Managing Node.js Docker images in GitHub Packages using GitHub Actions

If you’re doing open source development today, chances are high that you’re active within the GitHub community — participating in open source projects and their repositories. A recent addition to the GitHub ecosystem is GitHub Packages, which was announced back in 2019 and is now receiving even more updates with the general availability of the GitHub Packages container registry.

Advanced Kubernetes Pod to Node Scheduling

In Kubernetes, the task of scheduling pods to specific nodes in the cluster is handled by the kube-scheduler. The default behavior of this component is to filter nodes based on the resource requests and limits of each container in the created pod. Feasible nodes are then scored to find the best candidate for the pod placement. In many scenarios, scheduling pods based on resource constraints is a desired behavior.

RBAC and ABAC with AWS IAM

This is a guest blog post from Shuo Yang in his blog series “Transitioning to Programming the Cloud”, as a part of our blog posts focusing on Identity, Security and Access. We talked about how AWS CIP, STS and IAM can serve as the foundation of application authorization in our last post, i.e., how the application gets the temporary credential representing a specific role (i.e.

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Remote possibility: how to help remote staff achieve better work-life balance

The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically altered working experiences and what we consider to be normal. Almost every industry has been affected and businesses were forced to scramble to find ways of operating at such a difficult time. Things have begun to improve, and we may be through the worst of the pandemic, but it has had a lingering effect.

Azure Cloud Storage, PV Backups, and Ransomware Protection with New CloudCasa Release

CloudCasa is a simple, scalable, and inexpensive cloud backup service for protecting your Kubernetes and cloud native applications. We worry about protecting your Kubernetes environment so that you don’t have to! Since the introduction of CloudCasa in November of last year, we’ve been making improvements and adding new features at a steady rate. The CloudCasa team has been very busy this spring, and we’re now pleased to announce yet another major release of new service features!

CloudCasa Demo - How to Backup Kubernetes Persistent Volumes to CloudCasa

Learn how to backup Kubernetes Persistent Volumes to protect your data from ransomware attacks and for disaster recovery. Not only can CloudCasa create and manage Persistent Volume (PV) snapshots for you, but now you can backup those snapshots to our secure cloud storage as well. Just choose the “Snapshot and copy to CloudCasa” option when you create a Kubernetes backup job and you can also add this option to existing jobs by editing them.

Hardening AWS EKS security with RBAC, secure IMDS, and audit logging

Misconfigurations in infrastructure as code (IaC) can be just as dangerous as vulnerabilities in code. Small mistakes in configuration can lead to the sensitive data being readable on the internet, or private endpoints and dashboard accessible to the anonymous users and abused as the initial point of compromise. Recent security research findings indicate the rise in malware targeting the Kubernetes platform which showcases the need for secure configuration.

Tips and best practices for building secure container images

When you start scanning your container images, it can be disconcerting to discover that you have large numbers of vulnerabilities. Below is a scan I did last week on a vulnerable node image that I built. While a fairly extreme example, you can see that this image out of the box is showing as having over 800 vulnerabilities in it.

Learning application security by finding and fixing insecure code in OWASP NodeGoat

Wouldn't it be great if we, developers, learn about application security by training on purposely-built vulnerable applications rather than finding our mistakes in production? Yes, we think so too. In this session, we welcome Priscila Oliveira, Software Engineer at Sentry and core contributor of open source npm proxy project Verdaccio, to chat about her appsec experiences as developer, and learn together about secure coding practices, how to hack a live application, open source vulnerabilities and how to fix them.