Kubernetes and Security -- An Overview from RedHat and Intel Feb 2019

This all-day seminar, presented at no cost to OpenSource contributors and others, featured RedHat senior speakers on a variety of topics related to Kubernetes and security, both current and roadmap.

The event was presented to an audience of about 100 professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds, commercial, government and FOSS. Primary committers on many projects were also in attendance, mostly from RedHat.

The morning started out with the news that "security is a hard problem, and is not solved" .. there is a massive expansion of products and participants, and that most every C-Level executive in technology is identifying security as a key-concern in recent surveys. Of course, what is not stated on-stage is the relentless news articles on data-breaches of every kind, and a general worry about increasingly sophisticated attack vectors, up-to and including "AI" driven activity. Couple this with very popular and cost-effective "cloud" computing services, and the idea that security is important is self-evident.

In the past two years, the Kubernetes system [0], originally from Google engineering and implemented in Golang, has moved to the forefront of container-driven workflows in industry. RedHat and others had been involved with Kubernetes, and also other container systems, but K8s as it is called for short, has momentum and with it, engineering resources. It is safe to say that it is a hard problem to accomplish well, and there is little to be gained by re-inventing these kinds of plumbing-level compute mechanisms.

[0] ​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes

presentations are available here: ​https://www.brighttalk.com/summit/4516-security-symposium/

event site: ​https://www.redhat.com/en/events/security-symposium-sanjose#