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I have been using an encrypted USB drive for several years, which unlocks with biometric access. Recently, I started wondering how to achieve the same level of protection with other disks or USB keys. The answer is cryptsetup, a utility included in most Linux distributions. I’ve done some tests and documented how to use it in a repository I’ve named technical_notebook. I’ll use technical_notebook as a personal notebook—it will contain commands, concepts, and useful links. The purpose of the repo is to help me remember these details, keep them easily accessible, and perhaps assist others who have similar needs.

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending KubeCon 2024 EU in Paris. I must begin by thanking SIGHUP for giving me the opportunity to participate in my second consecutive KubeCon, THANK YOU! I decided to write this post to encourage those who have never attended a large-scale event to give it a try! In this case, size matters! If you’re involved in the cloud native world as a client, developer, consultant, or major vendor you can’t miss it! Colleagues, clients, partners, competitors, maintainers of small projects, volunteer committees, and big corporations—they’re all there! ...

One week ago, CyberArk released another update for Conjur Enterprise, which has now reached version 13.2—definitely another step in the right direction! This release includes the usual bug fixes, expands Conjur’s integrations (for example, OpenShift 4.14 is now supported), and, most importantly, adds two exciting new features: CyberArk Vault Synchronizer high availability support Enhanced Conjur support for the Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver Synchronizer high availability enhances Conjur’s disaster recovery (DR) strategy. It is now possible to set up a “passive” Synchronizer in a DR site that is aware of the status of the primary Synchronizer and can take over in case of a failure. ...

Hello there! As I mentioned before, I’ve always been a community person, and I’ve found a new way to contribute: during the first half of 2024, I’ll be one of the editors helping to curate content for KubeWeekly. KubeWeekly is a newsletter that delivers a curated selection of news, tweets, articles, and videos about Kubernetes and the CNCF landscape straight to your inbox. If you’d like to see what we’re working on or join the mailing list, please check out this page!

Hello there! Just a quick post to share that KCD Italy has been announced and will take place in Bologna on 20 June 2024! I’m not directly involved in organizing this event, but my company is, so I’m publishing this post to help spread the word! The CFP (Call for Proposals) is open and available at this link. English sessions are welcome! We are also still looking for new sponsors. If you’re interested, please contact one of the organizers or reach out to me, and I’ll put you in touch with them. ...

A couple of weeks ago, CyberArk released a new and interesting version of Conjur: 13.1. This point release is really interesting because it brings important under-the-hood updates that aim to increase the resiliency of followers. If you want to read more about this release, please check out the article I wrote on the SIGHUP blog.

Yesterday, KubeCon NA in Chicago came to a close, so now we can start looking forward to KubeCon EU 2024, which will take place in Paris from March 19th to 22nd, 2024 😊. For Paris, early bird registrations are open until November 28th, and it’s still possible to submit proposals for the call for papers. I wanted to share an interesting initiative called Kubetrain, which aims to help attendees reach Paris in a more environmentally sustainable way by choosing trains over planes. ...

I’ll start with a premise for those who may not already be familiar: the open-source software ecosystem often revolves around foundations, with the most famous probably being the Linux Foundation. In the cloud-native domain, the reference foundation is the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, commonly known as CNCF. CNCF is a foundation created by the Linux Foundation in 2015, specifically to manage projects in the cloud-native domain. In simple terms, it can be defined as a third-party, vendor-neutral entity that oversees the development and activities related to major projects involving containerized technologies like Kubernetes. ...

During the previous days, CyberArk has released version 13.0 of Conjur Enterprise. What’s new? Who should consider upgrading, and why? I’ve published an article on these topics here on the SIGHUP blog.

CyberArk Conjur is released as an appliance and distributed as container images to enable fast, error-free setup. The supported container runtimes include: Docker 20.10 or later Mirantis Container Runtime 20.10 Podman 3.x, 4.x While working with multiple Conjur environments in our labs and at customer sites, we noticed that log rotation (for Conjur, Nginx, cluster, etc.) did not function correctly on Podman, although it worked as expected on Docker. After some investigation with the excellent CyberArk support team, we identified the solution: ...