Adam and Craig end the year by talking to Jordan Liggitt, the member of the Kubernetes Product Security Team who fixed the recent critical security vulnerability in the Kubernetes API server. We also take a look at the news from KubeCon.
This is our last episode for 2018. Thank you for your support this year, and we’ll be back on the 8th of January!
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News of the week

etcd donated to the CNCF

Chubby paper
Raft paper
Blog post on the relationship between Kubernetes and etcd by Gyuho Lee and Joe Betz


Istio:

Geekwire: Has Istio become the new cloud-native darling?
Google launches Istio on GKE
VMware NSX Service Mesh
Aspen Mesh open beta
In other service mesh news: A10 Secure Service Mesh


Knative:

Knative: bringing serverless to Kubernetes everywhere
SAP: Extensibility on cloud-native stack
Red Hat to deliver hybrid serverless workloads to the enterprise
Pivotal launches Function Service
GitLab and TriggerMesh announce GitLab Serverless


Oracle Cloud Native Framework
Microsoft:

Osiris
Azure Monitor for Containers is GA
Phippy Goes To The Zoo
Phippy, Captain Kube and friends now in the CNCF


Digital Ocean Kubernetes now open to everyone
Linode Kubernetes CLI

Terraform scripts


VMware closes its acquisition of Heptio

For $550M
Dell will go public again


Quickfire Kubernetes security news

NeuVector announced containerd and CRI-O runtime support in their container firewall
Aqua’s Container Security Platform is now certified to cover the Kubernetes CIS benchmarks
Lacework announced their configuration scanning platform covers Kubernetes
Sysdig released Sysdig Secure 2.2, which adds Kubernetes audit events, and the ability to block deployments using Kubernetes admission controllers
Twistlock released 18.11, which “introduces security visualization for Kubernetes, and compliance and security configuration checks for Istio, including new alerting integrations with PagerDuty, and cloud services


Grafana Loki

Thanos: Prometheus at scale


Maestro – A declarative, no-code approach to Kubernetes Day 2 Operators
rbacsync
PlanetScale announces funding

TechCrunch article



Links from the interview

Jordan’s suggested KubeCon talks to watch:

Kelsey Hightower’s keynote, “Kubernetes and the path to serverless”
Julia Evans’ keynote, “High Reliability Infrastructure Migrations”


OpenShift before Kubernetes in 2014
Kubernetes Product Security Team
CVE-2018-1002105: proxy request handling in kube-apiserver can leave vulnerable TCP connections

Listing in the National Vulnerability Database
Originally filed as a bug against Rancher

Rancher blog post


How to report a vulnerability
Proof of concept (third party)
How it was fixed
Distributor’s list
Client certificate vulnerability in Kubernetes in 2016


Answering questions on Stack Overflow
Jordan Liggitt on Twitter, GitHub, Slack or Stack Overflow