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Image credit :  Platformer -   https://medium.com/platformer-blog/using-kubernetes-secrets-5e7530e0378a Introduction: Kubernetes is currently the de-facto standard for container orchestration. As organizations globally are adopting a Container first development approach, a large part of existing workloads is still running on virtual machines, be in the public cloud or a private data center. Hence a lot of companies are now facing severe challenges in migrating from their old methods to Kubernetes. However, there are times when you want bake-in sensitive secret information into your Kubernetes cluster and share it across when needed. You do not want to put this information into a Pod definition YAML or a docker image. This is where Kubernetes Secret comes to your rescue. In this post, we will try to gain more insight into how we can manage secrets effectively in Kubernetes. Why Use a Secret? Not all configuration information is safe to keep out in the “pu...

When talking about “ service mesh ” in a container and Kubernetes ecosystem, I am sure you would definitely have heard of the  Istio  tool It has become the most popular and widely used service meshes to secure and control network traffic in container space. If you follow this space, you must be aware that the Istio team puts-in a lot of hard work to update and come up with new releases, the latest one being Istio v1.5. So in this post, I am going to share what changes or updates Istio v1.5 brings for you. At a high level, as  Istio team puts it as  : “We’ve made it simpler to install and run Istio by consolidating the control plane components into a single binary; we’ve introduced a powerful and fast new extension model for proxy servers across the industry, and we’ve continued to improve usability, security, telemetry and traffic control. ” Major Updates in the new release 1. A major change to control plane architecture, with Is...