Stories Tag: ambassador-edge-stack

Web Application Firewall Architectures and Cloud Native Solutions | by Alex Gervais | Sep, 2020 | Ambassador API Gateway

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A web application firewall (WAF) is a network security component that inspects, sanitizes and redacts malicious HTTP requests for applications. Since WAFs are operating on the application layer (layer 7 in the OSI model), traffic payloads originating from users and bots can be analyzed, in the hopes of blocking malicious clients and letting legitimate client requests proceed. WAFs are a critical part of any enterprise…

Step-by-Step Centralized Authentication for Kubernetes with Keycloak and the Ambassador Edge Stack | by Alex Gervais | Aug, 2020 |...

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Keycloak is a widely adopted Identity and Access Management (IAM for short) open-source solution. 2014 was a big year for groundbreaking technologies as both the Keycloak and Kubernetes projects were initially released a few weeks apart. Unsurprisingly, many Kubernetes end-users are turning to Keycloak as the preferred way to manage access to the secure APIs and services of their platform. Simply running Keycloak in Kubernetes…

Why does it feel like Kubernetes the hard way is the only way? | by Alex Gervais | Aug, 2020...

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Kubernetes is a fantastic foundation for an application platform, but it is just that — a foundational component. In order for it to be useful for application developers Kubernetes must be augmented with continuous delivery, ingress and an API gateway, and observability. You need to get your apps onto Kubernetes, you need to get user traffic into your applications, and you need to be able…

AWS EKS — Private edge architecture | by Maarten Fuchs | Jul, 2020 | Medium

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Transforming into a cloud-native landscape by applying GitOps to the underlying infrastructure allows you to focus on platform improvements and innovation rather than maintenance and support. Together with well-designed cloud-native applications they are the key fundamentals of future success and help us understand the technology of tomorrow. This story illustrates a vision, a design, a strategy and many roadblocks while transforming into a cloud-native landscape…

Securing Apps Deployed via Jenkins X Using Ambassador Edge Stack

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This article was written by Oscar Medina, Developer Advocate for Jenkins X, an open-source CI/CD platform. The post was originally posted on http://sharepointoscar.com/. Oscar also presented a hands-on webinar on Securing Apps Deployed via Jenkins X Using Ambassador Edge Stack with Matt Turner from Datawire and it includes a live demonstration. Microservice orchestrated by Kubernetes sometimes need not be public-facing. There are many options to…