Summer is almost over but we are bringing the heat back with the official release of Tigera’s new container security features. With this official launch, Calico leads the industry by offering a complete line of solutions across every stage of a cloud-native application CI/CD pipeline. From a new and improved approach to scanning container images for vulnerabilities to strengthening runtime security with improved performance, we’ve significantly improved and enhanced our Image Assurance and Runtime Threat Defense features for this exciting new phase of our Calico Cloud offering. Let’s take a look at the new container security features of this release.
Scanning container images for vulnerabilities is a critical first step in stopping malicious software from being deployed. As business demands grow, development teams are pushed to churn out updates and new features faster. As a result, DevOps teams require assistance to help them quickly identify vulnerabilities in the registries where the container images are pulled from. Calico Cloud is now offering a CLI-based scanner for on-demand scanning, where customers can locally scan for vulnerabilities in their build stage. A lightweight downloadable binary is all it takes to perform these scans and integrate the process into Continue reading
Today we are excited to announce support for the Ethereum Merge on the Ethereum network and that our Ethereum gateways now support the Görli and Sepolia test networks (testnets). Sepolia and Görli testnets can be used to test and develop full decentralized applications (dapps) or test upgrades to be deployed on the mainnet Ethereum network. These testnets also use the Ethereum protocol, with the major difference that the Ether transacted on the testnet has no value.
Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain with smart contract functionality which Cloudflare allows you to interact with through an HTTP API. For a quick primer on Ethereum and our gateway, please refer to our previous blog post on the Ethereum Gateway.
As preparation for the merge, the Ethereum Foundation has executed merges on multiple testnets to ensure that the actual mainnet merge will occur with minimal to no disruption. These testnets both successfully upgraded to Proof of Stake and Proof of Authority, respectively. Cloudflare’s Testnet Gateway handled the Görli-Prater merge without issue, ensuring that we will be ready and prepared for the upcoming Ethereum Merge for mainnet. Our testnet gateways are live and ready for use by Cloudflare Ethereum Gateway customers.
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One of my readers preparing for public cloud deployment sent me an interesting observation:
I pushed to use infrastructure-as-code as we move to Azure, but I’m receiving a lot of pushback due to most of the involved parties not having any experience with code. Management is scared to use any kind of “homegrown” tools that only a few would understand. I feel like I’m stuck deploying and managing the environment manually.
It looks like a bad case of suboptimal terminology for this particular audience. For whatever reason, some infrastructure engineers prefer to stay as far away from programming as possible1, and infrastructure-as-code sounds like programming to them.
One of my readers preparing for public cloud deployment sent me an interesting observation:
I pushed to use infrastructure-as-code as we move to Azure, but I’m receiving a lot of pushback due to most of the involved parties not having any experience with code. Management is scared to use any kind of “homegrown” tools that only a few would understand. I feel like I’m stuck deploying and managing the environment manually.
It looks like a bad case of suboptimal terminology for this particular audience. For whatever reason, some infrastructure engineers prefer to stay as far away from programming as possible1, and infrastructure-as-code sounds like programming to them.
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Once we are sorted with the theoretical part of how we are to deploy OpenStack, we are moving to a practical bit. Today we are going to explain the steps we are going to take in order to deploy OpenStack, the supporting storage and how they are to be integrated.
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Sometimes a painfully troublesome networking problem can have a complicated and brain-twisting root cause, one which you dread having to explain to peers and managers. However, sometimes the root cause is dead simple and makes you feel silly for how long it took you to find it. Today, I had one of the latter and […]
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Today's Network Break podcast examines a new Broadcom switch ASIC that can support threat analysis, a startup that's challenging the SD-WAN and MPLS markets, Apple's new partner for an emergency SMS service that uses satellites, a great quarter for data center switch revenue, and more IT news.
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In the last blog post in the VLANs and VRFs in netlab series, I described how we can combine VLANs and VRFs and create a VRF Lite solution with stretched VLANs. Wonder how hard would it be to create a routed multi-hop VRF Lite topology? It’s trivial.
Routed VRF Lite lab topology