Adam and Craig end the year by talking to Jordan Liggitt, the member of the Kubernetes Product Security Team who fixed the recent critical security vulnerability in the Kubernetes API server. We also take a look at the news from KubeCon.

This is our last episode for 2018. Thank you for your support this year, and we’ll be back on the 8th of January!

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News of the week

etcd donated to the CNCF
- Chubby paper
- Raft paper
- Blog post on the relationship between Kubernetes and etcd by Gyuho Lee and Joe Betz
Istio:
- Geekwire: Has Istio become the new cloud-native darling?
- Google launches Istio on GKE
- VMware NSX Service Mesh
- Aspen Mesh open beta
- In other service mesh news: A10 Secure Service Mesh
Knative:
Oracle Cloud Native Framework
Microsoft:
Digital Ocean Kubernetes now open to everyone
Linode Kubernetes CLI
- Terraform scripts
VMware closes its acquisition of Heptio
- For $550M
- Dell will go public again
Quickfire Kubernetes security news
- NeuVector announced containerd and CRI-O runtime support in their container firewall
- Aqua’s Container Security Platform is now certified to cover the Kubernetes CIS benchmarks
- Lacework announced their configuration scanning platform covers Kubernetes
- Sysdig released Sysdig Secure 2.2, which adds Kubernetes audit events, and the ability to block deployments using Kubernetes admission controllers
- Twistlock released 18.11, which “introduces security visualization for Kubernetes, and compliance and security configuration checks for Istio, including new alerting integrations with PagerDuty, and cloud services
Grafana Loki
- Thanos: Prometheus at scale
Maestro – A declarative, no-code approach to Kubernetes Day 2 Operators
rbacsync
PlanetScale announces funding
- TechCrunch article

Links from the interview

Jordan’s suggested KubeCon talks to watch:
- Kelsey Hightower’s keynote, “Kubernetes and the path to serverless”
- Julia Evans’ keynote, “High Reliability Infrastructure Migrations”
OpenShift before Kubernetes in 2014
Kubernetes Product Security Team
CVE-2018-1002105: proxy request handling in kube-apiserver can leave vulnerable TCP connections
- Listing in the National Vulnerability Database
- Originally filed as a bug against Rancher
  - Rancher blog post
- How to report a vulnerability
- Proof of concept (third party)
- How it was fixed
- Distributor’s list
- Client certificate vulnerability in Kubernetes in 2016
Answering questions on Stack Overflow
Jordan Liggitt on Twitter, GitHub, Slack or Stack Overflow

Kubernetes CVE-2018-1002105, with Jordan Liggitt

Kubernetes Podcast from Google