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Kubernetes Master Class: Bringing Istio to Production

We all have gone through the introductory talks about Istio, but there is some confusion on how you can bring Istio in to a full production environment. In this master class, we will help you understand this journey of bringing Istio into a production environment and how it differs from your testing environments.

Secure deployments using Kubernetes admission controllers

Kubernetes admission controllers are a powerful Kubernetes-native feature that helps you define and customize what is allowed to run on your cluster. An admission controller intercepts and processes requests to the Kubernetes API prior to persistence of the object, but after the request is authenticated and authorized.

Deploy a Multi-node Elasticsearch Cluster With Kibana in Minikube Using the Elastic Helm Chart

In 2 minutes / 7 steps easily deploy a multi-node Elasticsearch cluster w/ Kibana in Kubernetes using Elastic Helm Charts. Dan Roscigno from Elastic will show you how to get started - from adding our Helm repo, to grabbing a values.yml for Minikube, to deploying the charts, and finally visualizing sample data in Kibana and enabling monitoring of the entire deployment.

Container Orchestration in 2019

How are you deploying your applications in 2019? Are you using containers yet? According to recent research over 80% of you are. If you are within this group, were you initially sold on the idea of containers but found that in reality, the complexity involved with this approach makes it a difficult trade-off to justify? The community is aware of this and has come up with a remedy to ease the pain, and it’s called container orchestration.

Complexity as the Enemy of Security

In an ideal scenario, security would be baked into the development process from the very beginning. Security teams would primarily exist to verify that best practices have been followed at every step in the process. In practice, security is an enormous challenge for most organizations. This challenge is compounded by the increasingly complex and fast-paced nature of modern service-oriented architectures, such as Kubernetes.