As I continue this series on CI/CD pipeline security, it is time to now work on securely building and deploying our application. This post picks up where my Build Secure Python Pipelines: Adding Tests and Hooks in Action post left off. In this post, we’ll continue our pipeline development by adding a container build and … Read more
After writing my From Scattered to Splunk: Bringing Order to Your Kubernetes Logs post, a buddy of mine Danny Ansell (oh by the way he does work for Cribl and used to work for Splunk) suggested that I could always import my logs into Cribl as well. I’m madly in love with Splunk and do … Read more
In my Silence Not Golden: Fixing the Mute Button on Tetragon Logs post, I realized that I was an idiot. I also realized that I needed to get all of my Kubernetes into one place for a number of reasons. I’m most familiar with Splunk so it makes sense to centralize my Kubernetes logs with … Read more
In my previous From Reactive to Proactive: Transforming Security with Tetragon post, I got Tetragon installed and working. After doing some digging, I found that I was only generating events and logs for one of the k8 nodes in my cluster. This article focuses on how I noticed this and how to fix tetragon logging … Read more
I previously blogged about Starboard and How to Install and Use Starboard to Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster. These articles were focused more on vulnerability and configuration management. Now, I wanted to focus my attention on runtime security observability using Tetragon. Getting Started With Tetragon The first step is to install it. The Tetragon website recommends … Read more
In previous posts,How to Install and Use Starboard to Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster and Enhancing Kubernetes Security and Compliance with Starboard Audit Reports: A Practical Guide, I started working through the different security reports available from the Starboard security scanner. The next step is to begin reviewing starboard Infrastructure Scans for security insights. Getting an … Read more
In my How to Install and Use Starboard to Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster post, I first installed Starboard and reviewed a vulnerability scan report. After reviewing the results, I then tried to action some of the vulnerabilities in my MySQL deployment. In addition to vulnerability scans, Starboard can also conduct configuration audits of your Kubernetes … Read more
In my previous post, How to Install and Use Starboard to Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster, I successfully secured my Bitnami MySQL deployment. The problem is that I also broke my Bitnami MySQL deployment. By upgrading the deployment, I lost the curl command that I used to pull down sample data into my pod. I realized … Read more
In my Securing Your CI/CD Pipeline: A Beginner’s Guide to Implementing Essential Security Measures post, I started to tinker with SecOps a little with Terrascan. I also stumbled upon another tool called Starboard from Aqua security. In this post, I’m going to focus on using Starboard installation and usage as a Kubernetes Operator to see … Read more
If you take a look at this blog, you’ll see that I’ve begun to tinker with devops quite a bit. If you’ve ever taken the trouble to look me up on LinkedIn, you’ll also see that I’ve had a little history doing security stuff. Given my love of security, the next logical step of my … Read more