At Kubecon 2023 in Amsterdam, Azure made several exciting announcements and introduced a range of updates and new options to Azure-CNI (Azure Container Networking Interface). These changes will help Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) users to solve some of the pain points that they used to face in previous iterations of Azure-CNI such as IP exhaustion and big cluster deployments with custom IP address management (IPAM).

As cyber attacks have become ever more sophisticated, the means of protecting against cyber attacks have had to become more stringent. With zero trust security, the model has changed from “trust but verify” to “never trust, always verify.” Joining D2iQ VP of Product Dan Ciruli for an in-depth discussion of zero trust security was Dr. John Sahlin, VP of Cybersolutions at General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), and David Sperbeck, DevSecOps Capability Lead at GDIT.

Kubernetes has revolutionized the way we manage and deploy applications, but as with any system, troubleshooting can often be a daunting task. Even with the multitude of features and services provided by Kubernetes, when something goes awry, the complexity can feel like finding a needle in a haystack. This is where Kubernetes Operators and Auto-Tracing come into play, aiming to simplify the troubleshooting process.