Name: SAIC Shares Military Grade Kubernetes Best Practices for Digital Transformation
Start: 2022-11-18T22:46:00Z
End: 2022-11-18T22:47:01.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

D2iQ accelerates Day 2 success for smart cloud-native applications on enterprise Kubernetes with cloud native expertise, simplicity, and military-grade security.

The U.S. Department of Defense’s Software Modernization Strategy calls for gaining a competitive advantage to achieve strategic and tactical superiority. Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and implementing zero trust security are critical parts of the movement to modernize the U.S. military. 

Kubernetes, which is being deployed widely among military branches and the DoD, is the ideal platform for running AI workloads. However, achieving successful zero trust and AI deployments requires the right technology approach and skill set. In this webinar, Kubernetes experts will provide insights and best practices to help your organization succeed in its modernization efforts.

Next-Gen Defense: Unleashing the Power of Kubernetes

Containerized platforms, open source software, and the cloud have introduced new security challenges. To meet these challenges, modern security modes have emerged, including zero trust, shift left, DevSecOps, and air-gapping. Successfully achieving these security modes and practices requires technology and cultural changes.   

In this webinar, D2iQ CEO Tobi Knaup and ESG Analyst Paul Nashawaty will share expert insights and best practices to enable you to avoid the pitfalls and establish the strongest security posture, at scale, across your entire infrastructure.

Modern infrastructure and security topics that will be covered include:
- Modern security modes: state of the art
- Kubernetes management done right
- Open-source security
- Multi-cloud fleet management
- Intelligent infrastructure
- Securing the supply chain

Mastering Cloud-Native Security: Get Proactive with GitOps, DevSecOps, and More

With Kubernetes becoming pervasive across military and government agencies, SAIC needed a better way to deploy Kubernetes for their clients in the defense and intelligence communities. D2iQ helped SAIC simplify its Kubernetes and advanced cloud-native deployments.

Tune into this conversation with Amazon Web Services and SAIC for insights on establishing a Kubernetes foundation for smart cloud-native applications and maintaining military-grade Kubernetes security across all environments.

SAIC Shares Military Grade Kubernetes Best Practices for Digital Transformation

In this session, Kubernetes experts from GDIT and D2iQ discuss how to secure your digital assets and create a Zero Trust culture within your organization.

Achieving zero-trust security is a goal set by the U.S. government. The Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity requires government agencies to achieve specific zero-trust security goals by the end of the 2024 fiscal year. Although Kubernetes was initially designed with basic security capabilities, broad and rapid adoption, and an increasingly sophisticated threat landscape have made Kubernetes more vulnerable to attacks.

Developers and security experts are now tasked with extending Kubernetes’ built-in security to effectively protect against more complex, volatile, and frequent cyber attacks. The previous “trust but verify” approach has often proven ineffective for the complex distributed nature of cloud computing, so Kubernetes security is being elevated to the “never trust, always verify” ideology of the zero-trust model to provide greater protection to organizations.

Key Takeaways:
—Basic Concepts of the Zero-Trust Model
—Three Best Practices for Zero Trust
   1) Optimize Software Configuration, Access Permissions 
   2) Log and Monitor Data
   3) Focus on People and Process Management
—How to Create a Zero Trust Security Culture

How to Meet Zero Trust Standards [D2iQ + GDIT]

A misguided approach to Kubernetes management can introduce unnecessary complexity, mismatched deployments, and excessive cost. These problems can be avoided by taking the appropriate planning and deployment steps up front.

Join D2iQ Principal Solutions Architect David Whitehouse as he reveals the best approaches and practices for achieving Kubernetes multi-cloud and hybrid management success, including use cases and demos. 

In this session you will learn how to:
- Build a hybrid multi-cloud architecture
- Manage hybrid and multi-cloud Kubernetes environments at scale
- Accrue the benefits of centralized multi-cloud fleet management

At a deeper technical level:
- How to create multi-cloud hybrid clusters
- How to build infrastructure for distributed teams using Kubernetes
- How to create workspaces and cluster infrastructure and manage cost attribution and right-sizing via Kubecost

Doing Kubernetes Multi-cloud and Hybrid Management Right

As the number of Kubernetes cloud and cluster deployments proliferates, organizations are experiencing the pain of managing disparate environments. When cluster sprawl is left unchecked, it can introduce all kinds of complexity and excessive cost. 

In this session you will learn how to:

Rethink your multi-cloud, multi-cluster management approach to achieve optimal efficiency through centralized management
Achieve consistency, standardization, security, and performance through declarative APIs and GitOps
Run applications in distributed, heterogeneous environments with minimal effort and cost
Eliminate duplication and wasted resources


Highlights
1. Challenges of managing multicloud environments
2. Establishing consistency in multicloud deployments
3. Use of declarative tools such as cluster API
4. Security measures for multicloud environments
5. Standardized platform approach for managing infrastructure
6. D2iQ Kubernetes Platform for managing multicloud deployments
7. Cost-saving features of Kubernetes
8. Automating processes for effective multicloud management

Tame the Chaos: Make Multi-cloud Management Secure and Cost Effective

D2iQ Kubernetes Expert Patrick Logan answers questions about air-gapped Kubernetes environments: 
What does the architecture look like for air-gapped Kubernetes?
What are the most important considerations for air-gapped Kubernetes?
Why does it typically take organizations so long to make this use case work?
What are the biggest mistakes most companies make on their air-gapped journey?

See how D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP) can radically simplify running production-grade Kubernetes in secure environments: https://d2iq.com/air-gapped-environments

Air-Gapped Kubernetes: Architecture and Considerations

A staggering 87% of container images include critical vulnerabilities, and cybercriminals have taken notice. In the face of ransomware and other growing threats, the best way to minimize exposure is by deploying an air-gapped environment.

Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), an analyst & consulting firm committed to providing an objective, vendor agnostic voice, has conducted key research into the Kubernetes space to help you develop an educated perspective.  

Join this session to hear from ESG Principal Analyst Paul Nashawaty as he provides an expert look at rising security risks of Kubernetes and the distinct advantages of an air-gapped approach, based on his current pulse on the market. Inside, discover:

• How Kubernetes and containers have transformed software deployment
• How to decide whether to air-gap (or intermittently air-gap) your infrastructure
• How to get started and ESG’s advice for overcoming common barriers
• And more

Kubernetes vs. ransomware: Enterprise Strategy Group’s research-based roadmap

A recent KPMG survey found that 67% of U.S. firms industries have yet to see a significant return on investment in the cloud.

- "A great deal of time and money is wasted on the cloud with poorly done Kubernetes Implementations."

Want to avoid becoming a cloud failure statistic? These tips could help your organization reverse or avoid a disastrous Kubernetes deployment.

You will learn:
- The 7 deadliest Kubernetes deployment sins and how to avoid them
- How to easily deploy a failure-proof Kubernetes platform
- How to establish a platform that will accommodate continual innovation
- How to upscale AWS EKS to support mission-critical application

Are you one of the 67% Failing in the Cloud? How to do Kubernetes Right

With Kubernetes becoming more and more popular every day, so is managing clusters at scale. Managing Kubernetes clusters the GitOps way via Flux CD operator you can manage thousands of clusters, each with dozens or even hundreds of nodes.

GitOps works by using Git as a single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and applications. For a Kubernetes cluster the Git repository hosts all resource manifests making up an application. Flux leverages this principle with a set of controllers watching one or more Git repositories for such manifests and automatically applies them.

Join this session, to learn the top three benefits of managing Kubernetes clusters at scale, the GitOps way using the Flux CD operator.

• Creates a simplified way to declaratively define thousands of clusters and perform operations on those clusters, as you would the workloads on the clusters
• Makes it easy to have a multi-tenancy approach where each team or group of applications gets their own cluster
• Operations against clusters are fully audited and attributable, as reverting changes is hard

Top Three Benefits of Using GitOps Driven Multi-Cluster Workload Management

Smart Cloud-Native is powering digital innovation and transforming the way enterprises are doing business. While every new technology introduces risks and rewards, the world is moving to smart-cloud native because of its numerous advantages. Join us for this webinar, an exploration of the top benefits of transitioning to Smart Cloud-Native and how cloud-native + AI can improve your business results and make the world a better place.

What you will learn:

- Why the world is moving to smart-cloud native apps.
- How the collective wisdom of the open-source community is the clear choice to bring smart cloud-native AI innovation into the mainstream.
- Why businesses must act now if they want to compete.
- Why digital experiences that are powered by AI and are self-improving will be the defining attributes of the next generation of winning products in all industries.

Top Three Benefits For Enterprises Transitioning To Smart Cloud-Native Now

Kubernetes consists of a core and an assortment of building block components that must be assembled and integrated to create an enterprise production-level platform. Most Kubernetes deployments fail because organizations underestimate the complexity of Kubernetes and overestimate their ability to deploy and manage a Kubernetes platform.

In this webinar you will learn:

- The components and steps required to make Kubernetes an enterprise-level production-ready platform.
- The steps required to supplement AWS EKS to create an enterprise-level production-ready platform.
- How to create an enterprise Kubernetes platform that will accommodate continual innovation.
- The importance of an open Kubernetes solution.
- How to position your organization to be on the winning side of the smart cloud-native revolution.

Enterprise Kubernetes Done Right

Although AWS EKS gives customers an excellent base Kubernetes platform, enterprises that require a richer set of production-level capabilities must supplement EKS with add-on services (for monitoring, logging, networking, storage, operational insights, policy management, identity management, continuous deployment, multi-cluster management, cost management, backup and restore, and more).

In this webinar, you will learn:

- The components and steps required to make Kubernetes an enterprise-level production-ready platform.
- What is required to supplement AWS EKS to create an enterprise-level production-ready platform.
- How to create an enterprise Kubernetes platform that will accommodate continual innovation.
- The importance of an open Kubernetes solution.
- How to position your organization to be on the winning side of the smart cloud-native revolution.

AWS EKS + D2iQ: Better Together - Take EKS from Entry-Level to Enterprise-Level

In this webinar you will learn how to identify the warning signs that your Kubernetes deployment is headed down the wrong path. You will learn how to avoid failure or save a failing Kubernetes deployment. 

The following are the 5 signs your Kubernetes deployment is at risk:
- Your DIY project is more complex than anticipated  
- The project is past due, over budget, and still not in production
- You’ve spent months standing up Kubernetes and still don’t have a single app running 
- You’re writing custom scripts to stand up and manage Kubernetes 
- Everyone on your team is a cluster admin

Kubernetes Adoption: 5 Signs Your Kubernetes Deployment Is at Risk

Adopting Kubernetes can be a long and complicated process, but it doesn’t have to be. There are a number of hurdles that can get in the way, from an IT skill gap, to difficult deployment. But what can organizations do to mitigate these challenges?

By committing to a cloud first and curated application approach, organizations can avoid some of the biggest challenges faced when adopting Kubernetes. In this session, hosted by Paul Nashawaty, Senior Analyst at EGG, we’ll deep dive into what else you can do to ensure that your Kubernetes adoption journey is a success. Join us as we discuss:

-  Key Kubernetes adoption trends
-  The growth in popularity of microservices 
-  Why monitoring and management is critical to success 
-  How to simplify Kubernetes adoption
-  And much more!

The 7 Steps to Simplify Kubernetes Adoption

“Cloud-native technologies are becoming the preferred way for enterprises to modernize applications at scale,” said Lee Sustar, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. 

Learn where cloud-based business modernization is trending and how to unlock a smarter future with cloud-native + AI in our webinar featuring guest speaker Lee Sustar. This is a rare opportunity to hear one of the leading independent research firm’s experts share his insights on key cloud-native trends, the Kubernetes landscape, and Kubernetes and artificial intelligence (AI) adoption as a mutually reinforcing trend. 

Why is this important? Organizations around the world are in the throes of a game-changing shift towards cloud-native technologies that are the foundation of next-generation infrastructures and products. Mastering these technologies will give organizations the agility they need to stay ahead of the competition and will be a marker of enterprise IT maturity.  

The next generation of cloud-native applications will have AI at their core, which means organizations that are building cloud-native applications today will need to continue evolving their capabilities to manage the most demanding AI/ML workloads at scale. The time is now for establishing smart cloud-native capabilities or risk falling behind your competitors.

During this webinar, you’ll learn: 

Why cloud native will dominate IT infrastructure and why it matters to you

How to reach enterprise IT maturity with a timely and efficient cloud-native adoption model, including a roadmap and tooling 

The benefit of organizations adopting Kubernetes and AI capabilities as these mutually reinforcing technologies go mainstream

How to modernize your existing applications in the cloud, including building modern applications on AWS, with a real-world use case

This webinar is brought to you by D2iQ, an AWS APN Partner.

Three Trends Driving Cloud-Native Adoption

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Enterprise Applications

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