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CloudQuery announces its new AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) integration—empowering engineering teams to analyze and optimize cloud spend directly from infrastructure data. Learn how to gain cost visibility, allocate budgets by tags or teams, and uncover hidden cloud expenses with powerful queries and dashboards.

Worried about Docker Hub rate limits? Discover how JFrog’s universal artifact manager and container registry ensures uninterrupted Docker usage by proxy caching, enabling authentication, and providing unlimited public Docker Hub downloads via JFrog SaaS, helping you scale seamlessly.

Deploying to air-gapped Kubernetes clusters is complex and error-prone. Devtron’s Software Distribution Hub simplifies this by automating Helm chart delivery, using private registries and a Release Operator to securely manage and monitor deployments in air gapped enviornments.

Managing multi-cluster Kubernetes environments across clouds and data centers introduces complexity, security gaps, and observability challenges. This article explores how Calico Cluster Mesh provides seamless inter-cluster connectivity, fine-grained security policies, intelligent traffic management, and unified observability—empowering teams to build scalable, secure, and efficient Kubernetes architectures. Learn how companies like Box leverage Calico to enforce zero-trust security and simplify multi-cluster operations.

Secure Kubernetes east–west traffic with service mesh zero trust: mTLS, JWTs, fine-grained API policies, WASM controls, and deep telemetry for detection and response.

Secure Kubernetes networking with TLS encryption. Importance of networking security and a step-by-step guide to implement TLS encryption for your cluster.

In collaboration with Teleport, Doyensec has developed the Security Policy Evaluation Framework (SPEF) — a dynamic testing and benchmarking tool for evaluating the security, performance, and reliability of popular authorization policy engines like Rego, Cedar, OpenFGA, and Teleport ACD. Built with modular architecture and containerized execution, SPEF allows researchers and engineers to validate policies under consistent, controlled conditions. This article walks through its architecture, supported engines, and key insights from early testing across 27 threat-driven test cases.

At Spectro Cloud, security isn’t an afterthought — it’s built into everything we do. From our zero-trust architecture and continuous vulnerability management to certifications like FedRAMP, FIPS, SOC 2, and ISO 27001, we ensure customers can innovate confidently and securely across any Kubernetes environment. Discover how we embed security into our culture, technology, and every layer of Palette and Palette VerteX.

The in-depth analyst research highlights Sidero’s Omni platform for its simplified and secure SaaS approach to deploying and managing edge-based Kubernetes clusters.

The MariaDB Enterprise Kubernetes Operator simplifies managing MariaDB Enterprise Platform on Kubernetes. Acting as an embedded DBA, it leverages Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) to automate deployment and operation of complex MariaDB topologies, including high-availability Galera clusters and MaxScale setups, using simple YAML files. Key features include effortless deployment, seamless rolling upgrades with minimal downtime, automated backups and recovery, and enhanced security. This operator enables advanced high availability with Galera and integrated load balancing with MaxScale, unlocking enterprise-grade features. Certified for Red Hat OpenShift, it reduces operational complexity, ensures data availability and security, and is available with a MariaDB Enterprise Platform Plus subscription.

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Discover how DBS Bank, Southeast Asia's largest bank, successfully migrated mission-critical applications from Oracle to MariaDB, achieving 30-70% cost savings, enhanced flexibility with microservices, real-time data streaming, and robust compliance for its demanding financial services operations.