The State of Kubernetes Policy and Governance

March, 2023

Hello, from all of us at Nirmata!

Here is our exclusive March newsletter which we would like to share with you. It has been an exciting month, and we bring you the the updates on cloud native security, compliance and governance from across the industry.

Please feel free to reach-out to us to share your feedback, or if you have any query.

Recent Videos

Demo of Nirmata Solutions

Demo video for secure self-service provisioning on Amazon EKS clusters using Amazon Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK), Argo CD and Kyverno.

Nirmata Policy Manager Overview- Policy and Compliance

Overview of NPM, compliance standards, adding custom compliance standards, policy violations reporting, and Nirmata K8s policy management.

Overview of Kyverno Use Cases

Copy and sync ConfigMap, auto-refresh environment variables, automatically clean up bare pods, automatically scale failed deployments to zero, and time-bound policies.

Nirmata Office Hours for Kyverno

Kubernetes policy and governance livestream, hosted by Nirmata team, the creators of Kyverno. This video explains new features of Kyverno 1.9, and what's coming up in the next release. Our team hosts this session on second Thursday of every month. Please feel free to join our next session on 13th April, 2023, 7am PT or 10am ET. For more details on how you can join this livestream, please click here.

eBook

The Ultimate Guide to Policy-based Governance, Security & Compliance for Kubernetes [2023 Edition]

Feb 2023

Why Kubernetes native policies matter for platform engineering? How does Kubernetes policy management work? What are the different policy types in Kubernetes? This comprehensive guide answers all these questions and much more. Download this free ebook to get in-depth understanding about policies, policy management, policy-as-code, along with an evaluation checklist you can use. Download the free copy here.

Recent Blogs

From Nirmata Team

• Need for an enterprise platform engineering strategy. 
• Kubernetes FinOps: A Platform Engineer’s Perspective. 
• Nirmata Policy Manager empowers platform engineering teams to delivery secure and compliant Kubernetes.
• Five reasons why Kyverno is better than Open Policy Agent (OPA) for Kubernetes policy management.

From Kubernetes Ecosystem

• A simple explanation on "Why policy-as-code" for Kubernetes Environments. 
• 2023 Benchmark Kubernetes Report: The State of Kubernetes Workload Security.
• Secure your CI/CD pipelines with Sigstore and Kyverno- Signing and verifying Image. 
• Great article by Rory McCune  on container security fundamentals: Exploring containers as processes.

Try Nirmata Policy Manager to ensure continuous compliance for your Kubernetes clusters by signing up for a Free Trial.

Recent Events

Kubernetes Policy Management with Kyverno 1.9

CNCF | Mar 2023

A deep dive session into what's new in Kyverno 1.9  for Kubernetes policy and governance, and a sneak peek into the upcoming release. Here is the video.

Policy Based Kubernetes Governance at scale with Kyverno

Meetup | Mar 25, 2023 | 2 PM (IST)

In this event, Olympus team from Zeta explained why they use Kyverno, and Jim also shared information about security and governance. Here is the link to the presentation slides. 

Upcoming Events

Security with Kyverno and GitOps in a Regulated Environment

CNCF | Mar 28, 2023

Unleashing the Power of Kyverno: A Deep Dive into Kubernetes Policy Management by Jinhong Brejnholt, VELUX.

KubeCon and CloudNativeCon- Europe 2023

CNCF | April 18-21, 2023

Several sessions covering Kyverno, policy management, Kubernetes policy-based data protection with Kasten and Kyverno, and much more. Sign up for the event here.  

From the Kyverno Community

Recent Releases

 
• Releases 1.9.2
• Kyverno Policy Reporter Chart v2.1.7.0

Blogs and News

• Top 10 most used policies for Kyverno. 
• Three essential tips for using ArgoCD and Kyverno. 
• Can ChatGPT be used to write Kyverno policies? 
• Preserving authorship in a GitOps world with Kyverno. 

Community Engagement

• 3.7k stars for Kyverno
• More than 1.4 Billion image pulls for Kyverno

We would love to hear from you!

Are you already using Kyverno or planning to use Kyverno for security, governance and compliance of your Kubernetes environments? Are you looking to solve complex problems such as multi-tenancy, software supply chain security or developer self-service?  Contact us to learn how we can help.

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