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Securing Microservices Vs. Monolithic Apps

DevOps.com

New requirements for Securing Microservices Vs. Monolithic Apps Enterprises are migrating from monolithic applications to microservices, hoping to accelerate software deployment and improve scalability. Security is sometimes glossed over in these transitions.

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Exploring the Horizon of Microservices With KubeMQ's New Control Center

Dzone - DevOps

One of those paradigm shifts that has become more pronounced in recent years is the adoption of microservices architecture by countless organizations. Managing microservices communication has been a sticky challenge for many developers.

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Microservices Security With SPIFFE and SPIRE

Dzone - DevOps

Enterprises these days have microservices distributed across a variety of environments — on-prem, cloud, containers, VMs, and more. This setup poses multiple security concerns for DevOps folks and architects, the primary one being ensuring proper authentication and establishing trust between service-to-service communication.

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Request-Level Authentication and Authorization With Istio and Keycloak

Dzone - DevOps

Kubernetes has made it easier to manage containerized microservices at scale. However, you get a limited set of security features with Kubernetes. A key component of application security is the prevention of unauthorized access. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) can also be implemented as an additional security measure.

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Authentication in Serverless Apps—What Are the Options?

DevOps.com

They are also commonly used to deploy microservices. However, serverless applications present unique security challenges, one of them being authentication. The post Authentication in Serverless Apps—What Are the Options? How can you […]. appeared first on DevOps.com.

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What is Istio? The Kubernetes service mesh explained

InfoWorld

Microservices architectures solve some problems but introduce others. But it also gives you many more moving parts to connect and secure. Managing all the network services—load balancing, traffic management, authentication and authorization, and so on—can become stupendously complex.

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Code analysis tool AppMap wants to become Google Maps for developers

TechCrunch

In December 2021, a vulnerability in a widely used logging library that had gone unfixed since 2013 caused a full-blown security meltdown. . It was described by security experts as a “design failure of catastrophic proportions,” and demonstrated the potentially far-reaching consequences of shipping bad code.