Securing Your Server Infrastructure: A Deep Dive into Istio Service Mesh for Preventing Information Disclosure — In today’s digital landscape, where data breaches and cyber threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated, ensuring the security of your servers is paramount. One of the critical security concerns that organizations must address is “Server Information Disclosure.” Server Information Disclosure occurs when sensitive information about a server’s configuration, technology stack, or…

Optimizing Microservices Communication: Unveiling Istio’s Proxy DNS Power for Advanced Service Discovery and Control — Istio is a popular open-source service mesh that provides a range of powerful features for managing and securing microservices-based architectures. We have talked a lot about its capabilities and components, but today we will talk about how we can use Istio to help with the DNS resolution mechanism.

Helm Multiple Instances Subchart usages as part of your main chart could be something that, from the beginning, can sound strange. We already commented about the helm charts sub-chart and dependencies in the blog because the usual use case is like that: I have a chart that needs another component…

A Powerful Utility for Seamless Kubernetes Validation and Management — Kubernetes API changes quite a lot, and we know that in every new version, they are adding new capabilities at the same time that they are deprecating the old ones, so it is a constant evolution, as we already stated in previous articles, as you can see, here regarding Autoscaling…

Istio Security Policies are crucial in securing microservices within a service mesh environment. We have discussed Istio and the capabilities that it can introduce to your Kubernetes workloads. Still, today we’re going to be more detailed regarding the different objects and resources that would help us make our workloads much…

Kubernetes Security is one of the most critical aspects today in IT world. Kubernetes has become the backbone of modern infrastructure management, allowing organizations to scale and deploy containerized applications with ease. However, the power of Kubernetes also brings forth the responsibility of ensuring robust security measures are in place…

Kubernetes has introduced as its alpha version in its Kubernetes 1.27 release the Vertical Pod Autoscaling capability to provide the option for the Kubernetes workload to be able to scale using the “vertical” approach by adding more resources to an existing pod. …

SoapUI is a popular open-source tool used for testing SOAP and REST APIs. It comes with a user-friendly interface and a variety of features to help you test API requests and responses. In this article, we will explore how to use SoapUI integrated with Maven for automation testing. Why Use SoapUI with Maven? Maven is…

Istio allows you to configure Sticky Session, among other network features, for your Kubernetes workloads. As we have commented in several posts regarding Istio, istio deploys a service mesh that provides a central control plane to have all the configuration regarding the network aspects of your Kubernetes workloads. …