Spoiler: we learned about the importance of open source, creating a fantastic community, tech-first vs software that’s not vendor-driven, and more.

Welcome to the Kubernetes Breakfast Club, our new vlog series featuring conversations with some of the most inspiring peers and friends from the cloud-native ecosystem. We ask our guests very important questions like what their favorite morning dish is or what keeps them busy outside their work these days. But we also ask their opinion on open source projects, application development practices, and everything in between.

When it comes to personal data, an individual's health records are right up there as being amongst the most sensitive of data. Protecting it from being accidentally or purposely leaked or misused, is of the highest importance; both from an individual's perspective, but also from a governmental perspective.

I'm a fan of online surveys. It's a fun, simple, and a great way to check the pulse of our community.

We launched our first survey back in 2018, where we looked at the state of securing cloud workloads. We then continued the motion in 2019 with The Kubernetes Adoption and Usage survey and most recently with the Helm survey, still open for feedback.

In this blog post I'd like to focus on the 2019 Alcide Kubernetes survey. Based on 200 responses from Dev, Ops, Security and Cloud Architects, our survey reveals that 45% of companies are now running Kubernetes in production, while 37% are leveraging hybrid or multi-cloud environments for their Kubernetes clusters.

In our recent blog about making Kubernetes logs auditing a viable practice we mentioned that in general, audit logs are used in two ways:

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“For most organizations, we believe serverless PaaS adoption is a matter of when, not if — with enterprise adoption rates exceeding 90% by 2021... However, as with the adoption of VMs and containers, support for securing serverless will initially have visibility and control gaps...Further, new types of attacks will emerge against serverless PaaS, requiring new approaches and techniques.” 1

Trifecta: a variation of the perfecta in which a bettor wins by selecting the first three finishers of a race in the correct order of finish source

I attended the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit in National Harbor, Maryland last week, leaving me plenty to write about.

Today is a good day! Amazon’s long-anticipated Elastic Containers Service for Kubernetes, EKS, is finally available to a general audience to use and enjoy. 

Alcide was just named a Gartner‘s Cool Vendor in Cloud Security for 2018! This is huge news for us.