Kubernetes

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.

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.

During the past few weeks, I have described what a secrets manager is and provided an overview of the architecture and system requirements of CyberArk Conjur. A secrets manager can’t do its job if it can’t communicate with those who need to request secrets, and that’s where Conjur’s magic comes in! The “authenticators” are responsible for the authentication process in Conjur and are specialized to do this in the most secure way, depending on the service. Here is the list of authenticators currently supported: ...

As I wrote in my last post, CyberArk Conjur is an enterprise secrets manager. , CyberArk Conjur is an enterprise secrets manager. In this post, I’ll provide an architecture overview along with the main system requirements. Conjur is currently available in two versions: Enterprise and open source (known as OSS). A “cloud” version will be available soon, offered as a SaaS solution. This post focuses on the Enterprise version, which is similar but not identical to the OSS version. ...