OpenInfra Foundation Silver Member, IPv6 Support, and Kubernetes Security

Hello and welcome to the February edition of our newsletter.

This month we have once again compiled technical and other news as well as some interesting articles from us and from the Internet for you. Have fun reading!

The email address for the newsletter has also changed - so it’s best to add newsletter@netways.de to your contacts right now! This also means you can now reply to our newsletter if you have any questions, feedback, or other comments.

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Community & Ecosystem

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NWS Joins the OpenInfra Foundation

We are delighted to announce that NWS joined the OpenInfra Foundation as a Silver Member to work even more closely with the community and developers of projects such as OpenStack or Kata Containers in the future.

For us at NETWAYS Web Services, open source forms the core of our platform, be it OpenStack as the basis of the NETWAYS Cloud or our numerous open source SaaS offerings.

By joining the OpenInfra Foundation, we are deepening our commitment to open source and freely available software, and hope to enter into even closer dialog with other institutions in the open source cosmos.

Are you interested in a standardized cloud environment powered by OpenStack? Then take a look around the NETWAYS Cloud!

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Product News

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IPv6 Support for the NETWAYS Cloud

Over the last few months, the team has been working hard on full IPv6 support in the NETWAYS Cloud behind the scenes. In this newsletter, we are pleased to inform you about the feature that will be available soon.

Look forward to the next issue of our newsletter in March, where you can expect a detailed introduction to the new possibilities of the NETWAYS Cloud from Justin!

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Tutorial

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Kubernetes Policies with OPA Gatekeeper

Adapting Kubernetes to your organization’s existing requirements is not always easy. Here and there, builtin features are missing that have to be bridged with third-party software. Fortunately, there are several solutions in the cloud-native cosmos that allow you to develop suitable policies.

One of these is the Open Policy Agent (OPA) and its Kubernetes framework Gatekeeper, which I took a closer look at in our latest blog post. If you want to see Gatekeeper in action, there is also a new, interactive and free playground available on our NWS platform.

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Reading Corner

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This month we have again found many interesting reports and articles on other sites for you:

• Jysk seems to like Talos as much as Justin:
  3000+ Clusters Part 2: The journey in edge compute with Talos Linux
• Daniel is glad he’s not a database administrator:
  Database Corruption in PostgreSQL: our journey to improving our upgrade process
• Dominik has more free time on weekends in the future:
  Do not fix Bugs Reported in Your Open Source Projects
• Sebastian has been thinking about whether the ends always justifies the means:
  Why the Ends don’t justify the means

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CLI Quick Win

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If you configure servers automatically with software such as Ansible or Puppet, at some point, you’ve probably wondered whether the changes are really being implemented. goss helps you out with quick and easy server testing/validation!

Small, fast, and with support for Ansible and others, you can play it safe with goss.

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