Max Kelsen Dives Into #KubeCon: Day Two

Key takeaways and highlights from KubeCon’s bi-annual conference, held virtually for the very first time — part two of a four part series.

Authors: Ruby Nguyen, Marketing Coordinator at Max Kelsen, and Jacob O’Farrell, Technical Delivery Lead at Max Kelsen.

As our team are now sinking their teeth into KubeCon, they share their favourite takeaways and insights from day two of the conference.

Handling Container Vulnerabilities with Open Policy Agent

Esmael Tahmasebi, Max Kelsen’s Cloud Engineer, found the presentation by Teppei Fukuda from Aqua Security Software titled ‘Handling Container Vulnerabilities with Open Policy Agent’ extremely interesting and relevant to the success of any organisation trying to apply best security practices.

With over 17,000 software vulnerabilities discovered each year (and imagine the ones that go undiscovered!), going through them manually and making fixes to them is merely impossible, not to mention mind-numbingly tedious. Even just scanning the vulnerabilities and trying to reach a judgement can be cumbersome to say the least. That is why using something like Open Policy Agent (OPA) that is able to churn through…