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Upgrading Your Rancher Downstream Clusters to Kubernetes v1.25

The PodSecurityPolicy API, initially deprecated in Kubernetes v1.21, was entirely removed in Kubernetes v1.25. Because the API was removed, you cannot create, edit or query PodSecurityPolicy resources in a Kubernetes v1.25 cluster. Also, because its admission controller was removed, your clusters can no longer enforce any PodSecurityPolicy rules that were created in Kubernetes v1.24 and prior.

Big data security foundations in five steps

We’ve all read the headlines about spectacular data breaches and other security incidents, and the impact that they have had on the victim organisations. From LastPass to SolarWinds, “data security” seems to be the phrase on the lips of every CTO these days. And in some ways there’s no place more vulnerable to attack than a big data environment like a data lake.

POS Security: How to Protect Your Android POS Systems

The adoption of POS devices across industries is advancing, fast! Businesses including restaurants, grocers, and retail stores are seeing POS devices as a multi-functional hub that offers menu creation, tableside ordering, employee management, CRM, inventory management, and more. According to statistics, 59% of retailers made focusing on omnichannel capabilities their top POS priority in 2020.

Azure Tenant: Comprehensive Guide to Managing Your Cloud Domain

When it comes to the world of cloud computing, Microsoft Azure is one of the top players in the game. However, managing an Azure environment can be complex and requires a good understanding of its various components. One such component is an Azure tenant. An Azure tenant, also referred to as a directory or a subscription, is essentially a dedicated and isolated instance of the Microsoft Cloud that holds your organization’s data and accounts.

What Is Broken-Access Control? Examples and Prevention

Access control is a security mechanism that regulates who has access to sensitive data, resources, and systems. It ensures that only authorized users can access sensitive data and activities while keeping unauthorized users out. Access control is critical for protecting sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII), financial information, and intellectual property.

Docker Secrets: An Introductory Guide with Examples

Securing sensitive data is crucial for any application, but managing this data can be complex and error-prone. Docker secrets provide a reliable and secure way to handle sensitive information like passwords, API keys, and certificates in your Docker environment. In this introductory guide, we’ll explore what Docker secrets are, how to use them with practical examples, and share some best practices to help you safeguard your sensitive data effectively.

Monitoring Azure Integration Services with Proactive Strategies

Enterprises are increasingly turning to cloud-based integration solutions to streamline their application development and management processes. Azure Integration Services is a cloud-based integration platform provided by Microsoft, designed to facilitate the integration of various enterprise applications and systems. It offers a range of tools and services that help to simplify and accelerate the development of enterprise applications, as well as improve their scalability, reliability, and security.

Platform Engineering: The Key to Successful Digital Transformation for the Enterprise

Explore how Platform Engineering can transform your enterprise and empower individual teams to work and ship independently, while maintaining compliance and governance requirements, through a centralised system. Discover: How CircleCI can help make platform engineering an integral part of their internal development platform. How to easily centralise essential components such as development processes, testing, infrastructure provisioning, project management, and observability. How platform teams operate in large organisations.

Sleep More; Triage Faster with Sentry

As a developer, triage duty week was often the worst week of my month. Anytime a bug was reported, I’d search for the right environment, wander through logs, pray there was an associated stack trace, use my mental mapping of our code base, and route bugs to the right teams. Developers on triage rotation need to ensure bugs are routed to the correct team along with adequate information to help the team investigate the bug.