While the federal government and U.S. military are innovative in many ways, they don’t like to live on the edge when it comes to information technology. Stable, reliable, and secure are the name of the game. But in order to support the most advanced technology, such as next-gen warfare and highly complex supply chains, agencies need the power of edge computing with more choices that go beyond proprietary vertical stacks and standard Amazon Web Services (AWS). Edge computing eliminates the dependencies of on-premise infrastructure and decouples devices in any form from the data center, providing powerful, always available computing wherever the user is—from our communities to our borders to the battlefield.

Container Security 101

Congratulations! You’ve successfully implemented your containerization strategy and automated your application deployment with Kubernetes. Whether you have a private or public cloud, you are still at risk for threats to your virtualized environment, including:

Throughout my career there has always been a disconnect between the documentation and the practical implementation. The Kubernetes (k8s) ecosystem is no stranger to...

Federal organizations are trying to strike a scalable balance between cloud modernization and data security. How can agencies keep up with the latest advances in...

What did I do?

As a new engineer at Rancher Federal (Suse Rancher Government Solutions) I wanted to setup Keycloak with TLS Passthrough on my shinny new RKE2 cluster. For the uninitiated TLS Passthrough is a way for the ingress or proxy to all TLS to passthrough. Meaning the pod itself will terminate TLS and not the ingress/proxy. RKE2 is fantastic that it ships with Nginx Ingress. There are a few other options out there on the market for ingress. Another favorite is Traeifk. But for this cluster I wanted to use the built in pieces. Nginx it is!

Monitoring and gathering metrics on your systems is an essential part of the lifecycle of any machine, application, or cluster. It provides us with the insight needed...

With the widespread adoption of Kubernetes throughout the DevOps space it is important to prioritize security using principles like defense in depth to safeguard your...