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Microsoft, Red Hat expand to focus on containers and DevOps, new Pivotal Container Service and Kubernetes Deployed on VMware

September is just a week old yet we already have some exciting announcements from the ecosystem: Microsoft and Red Hat partnership got even tighter with their announcement on native support for Windows Server containers on Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift dedicated on Microsoft Azure, and SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift to enable enterprises to more easily adopt containers; Google, VMware and Pivotal team up to bring Kubernetes on premise; and going serverless is not a question of 'why' but rather of 'when'. Read all about these stories and more in our September edition.

As always, you can contact us anytime contact@aquasec.com or follow us here @AquaSecTeam

News You Can Use

Microsoft joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation VMware teams with Pivotal rather than tackle containers alone 
Shedding some light on the future of its container platform Read on TechTarget ›
How Amazon's EC2 Container Service is Growing in the Public Cloud

Microsoft Amps Container Support with Jenkins Plugin to be compatible with Docker swarm, Kubernetes or Mesos DC/OS. Read on SDX Central ›

Gartner Identifies the Top Technologies for Security in 2017 Microsoft, Red Hat expand to focus on containers and DevOps Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Microsoft Azure is expected to be available in early 2018. Read on TechTarget ›
What is ACI? Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances explained It’s all going to be serverless — the question is “When?” An interesting read trying to answer 'Is Serverless Nirvana next?' Read on Medium ›
Container security: The seven biggest mistakes companies are making GitHub Goes All in on Kubernetes
GitHub’s principal site reliability engineer talks about GitHub coming to containers Read more on TheNewStack ›
Docker vs. Kubernetes vs. Apache Mesos: Why What You Think You Know is Probably Wrong Can CNCF Avoid Pitfalls That Have Hampered OpenStack?
And 'it's the Kubernetes project that has garnered the most attention for CNCF. Read on SDX Central ›
 

Kubernetes Metadata and Manifesto

 

Kubernetes Metadata We recently released the first prototype of Manifesto, a tool for storing metadata alongside a container image. Metadata can hold information about software that can change even if the software itself doesn’t, and we can use this information to create powerful automation tools.

 Read more on our blog

 
  
Upcoming Events

mesoscon conference

Attending MesosnCon NA Event on September 14?

Don't miss our on stage presentation as we talk about What Security People Want: Making DevSecOps Happen with Containers

 

Thursday, September 14 • 4:50pm - 5:30pm

 

Aqua News

'Software containers' are improving security of cloud computin 'Software containers' are improving security of cloud computing Baking in security early in the development process reduces risk, and fosters collaborative culture Read more here ›
https://dzone.com/articles/are-your-containers-secure-an-interview-with-aqua Are Your Containers Secure? An Interview With Aqua Security Zone Leader, John Vester, spends time with the research team at Aqua Security - in the first of two articles related to container security.  Read here ›
Microsoft Launches Azure Container Instances: Aqua Is Ready to Secure Them

Top 12 Experts Leading the DevSecOps Path In this post we're looking at the best, of the best, DevSecOps pioneers. Read on Aqua's blog ›

https://www.aquasec.com/news/aqua-security-joins-microsoft-enterprise-cloud-alliance/ Aqua Security Joins the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance 
Certified by Microsoft, Aqua’s platform delivers Cloud-Native, full-lifecycle security to enterprises using containers to build and run applications on Microsoft Azure
Read full press release here ›
Free Analyst Report

Forrester container security report

Forrester: Ten Basic Steps To Secure Software Containers

"Containers Are Not Just Small Virtual Machines; They Need New Security Strategies
At first glance, containers may appear to behave just like small virtual machines; they do not. Containers are snippets of code that use a shared kernel and run independently of one another. They demand distinct new security efforts." *

In this comprehensive report, Forrester analysts recommend steps that enterprises need to take to secure containers.

* Forrester, "Ten Basic Steps To Secure Software Containers", April 17, 2017, by Amy DeMartine, Dave Bartoletti with Christopher McClean , Andras Cser ,Trevor Lyness ,Peggy Dostie.

Download report now   

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