Name: The power of SBOM: get the K8s security visibility you need, automatically
Start: 2023-04-13T15:00:00Z
End: 2023-04-13T15:33:54.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

Spectro Cloud uniquely enables organizations to manage Kubernetes in production, at scale. Our Palette management platform gives effortless control of the full Kubernetes lifecycle, across clouds, data centers, bare metal and edge environments.

While Kubernetes enjoys widespread adoption, most deployments are still happening on virtual platforms. 

AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack and of course vSphere when it comes to private data centers… they’re all virtual platforms. 

But do you really need virtualization to run Kubernetes? 

Kubernetes is plenty capable of running enterprise workloads with high availability, and bare metal hardware is excellent for running them at scale and high performance. 

Just ask Super League Gaming, which runs thousands of Minecraft servers on our bare metal Kubernetes platform! 

But what about virtual machines? With the licensing costs of vSphere 8.0 rumored to quadruple, companies are naturally exploring alternatives. Kubernetes on bare metal, together with Kubevirt and some management tools, can be a great cost-effective solution to your vSphere license headache.

In this webinar you’ll learn:
- Exactly what bare metal Kubernetes is, and how to decide whether it’s right for you and your workloads (containerized and VMs)
- The challenges and pitfalls in adopting K8s on bare metal that you need to know about
- The state of the art in bare metal solutions like Metal as a Service (MAAS) from Canonical
- How to get started today

Whether you’re considering bare metal Kubernetes for the first time, or looking to see what’s new, this is the webinar for you. We’ll share insights learned deploying some of the largest bare metal Kubernetes projects in the world, and insider perspectives from our partners at Canonical.

Kubernetes on bare metal: ready for prime time!

Today’s new, rich applications span use cases from AI-enabled medical software at hospitals, smart shopping and hospitality, to drones maintaining power grids or inspecting crops. But the edge is not like the data center or the cloud, where conventional hardware and software security and control capabilities are enough. Beyond the complexity of Kubernetes and its ecosystem, today’s edge requires purpose-built solutions based on the tight coordination between hardware and software and all layers, with deep root security from the silicon to the app.

In this webinar, Intel’s Bryan Rodriguez, Principal Engineer & Edge Innovator, and Spectro Cloud’s Saad Malik, Co-founder and CTO, will be discussing what the new requirements for edge-native security are and how to address them, using the components and key principles from the Secure Edge-Native Architecture (SENA).

Secure Edge-Native Architecture: A new industry standard for edge-native apps

When you start to use Kubernetes in production, at scale, you're bound to run into one of these common "growing pains":

- Developer productivity. Too many teams needing clusters? Are delays slowing down their pipelines? Are tickets mounting up? It's a familiar story…
- Multicluster headaches. Mo' clusters, mo' problems. How do you maintain security and consistency without sprawling costs, too?
- The edge learning curve. Deploying to hundreds or thousands of remote bare metal devices, managing patches and upgrades... that's not a learning curve, it's a cliff.

With live demos and real best practices, we'll show you some ways to sidestep these pitfalls and achieve your K8s goals.

Three common Kubernetes growing pains — and how to solve them

If you’re adopting GitOps patterns to accelerate software delivery, you’re probably also choosing Kubernetes, lured by its flexibility and power.

But you’ll quickly discover that standing up K8s clusters across multiple clouds can be challenging… for everyone involved.

Application developers find they need to be Kubernetes experts just to test and deploy their code.
And platform teams are soon burning hours on provisioning and managing clusters and the whole stack of observability, security and other supporting components.

In this session, we’ll show you a better way.

We’ll explore how platform teams can benefit from GitOps, providing self-service clusters across any cloud while using the patterns their developers have become accustomed to.

We’ll get hands-on with two tools — Spectro Cloud Palette and Hashicorp Terraform — demoing how they work together to simplify Kubernetes cluster provisioning and operations while giving developers the tools they need to ship faster.

Presented with CDW’s Digital Velocity team, we will explore how CDW offers the foundation for these platforms, tools and patterns, so organizations rapidly achieve the desired results.

Use GitOps patterns to provide self-service Kubernetes clusters in any cloud

This webinar is perfect for platform engineers, devops engineers and operations teams, whether you’re looking to start running Kubernetes in production, or are struggling with your current tooling as your clusters grow.

In just one hour, we’ll give you a lightning tour of Spectro Cloud Palette and show you how it makes Kubernetes simple: even if you’re running hundreds of clusters, across cloud, data center and edge.

You’ll learn how to:

- Easily model the full stack of all your Kubernetes clusters with Palette’s unique Cluster Profiles, including your choice of pre-validated software integrations, operating systems and K8s distributions.
- Deploy your clusters with a click to clouds, virtualized and bare metal data centers, and even to the edge.
- Scale to thousands of clusters and consistently enforce the desired state with our unique decentralized architecture.
- Manage the full lifecycle of all your clusters from one place — and even import existing ‘brownfield’ clusters.
- Automate day 2 operations including monitoring and observability, self-healing, patching, upgrades, security scans, backup & restore and cost controls.

Maintain enterprise-grade control with granular RBAC, zero trust, policies and quotas.
You'll have the opportunity to ask questions and engage with our team during the live webinar. If you're unable to attend, the recording will be available for later viewing. Don't miss this chance to take control of your Kubernetes clusters. Register now!

Discover Palette, the easy way to manage your Kubernetes clusters

Managing day 2 storage operations like backup and security can be a daunting task in a cloud-native environment — and at scale, it can seem impossible.

In this 45-minute webinar, we’re welcoming the enterprise data gurus from Portworx. They’ll lead us through the requirements for modern storage on K8s, including a step-by-step demo of best practices for common use cases in Portworx Enterprise.

Then we’ll show how Portworx and Spectro Cloud Palette work together at scale, helping you manage your storage configurations as part of your overall K8s stack, across hundreds of clusters.

If you’ve been wrestling with the challenges of data management in your K8s clusters, this webinar will give you the answers you’ve been looking for.

What you'll learn:

- AA level-set on modern storage requirements for day 2 operations, from redundancy to security
- Key use case demos on a live K8s cluster covering high availability, backup and more
- How to consistently scale cluster storage profiles across multiple clusters

Data management at scale for the cloud native era

Let’s talk Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform and K8s!

There’s no dispute: Terraform is a great tool to deploy immutable infrastructure.

But there’s much more to consider when managing the full lifecycle of K8s at scale, especially across multiple operating environments: governance and RBAC, edge and bare metal locations, as well as day-2 operations (to name but a few).

In this 45-minute webinar, Spectro Cloud Sr. Solutions Architect Vinnie Ramirez will talk about the importance of treating infrastructure as code, what declarative management is all about, and how you can extend the value of your familiar Terraform workflow to include the Palette platform.

If you're in an IT Ops, Platform or DevOps engineering role with responsibility for K8s and are already using or planning to use Terraform, don't miss this session!

What you'll learn:
- An overview of HashiCorp’s Terraform and how it can deploy K8s clusters for day-0 and day-2, in public clouds and private data centers.
- K8s operations essentials that Terraform may not be the best tool to handle — from software deployment/configuration into K8s, to bare metal and edge deployments, to config drift.
- How to fill the gap by using Terraform with Palette for complete K8s management

Demo: Using the Spectro Cloud Terraform provider to deploy K8s clusters and containerized applications into K8s in public clouds and other operating targets.

Terraform and K8s: is Terraform enough?

Kubernetes should be the same anywhere, right? Well… almost. The ease of use and operational simplicity of public clouds is hard to beat, especially when hiding the infrastructure, in this case, means hiding the Kubernetes and open-source complexity.

But given that many enterprise workloads already run in on-premises data centers, it's no surprise that many organizations are using VMware when deploying and scaling Kubernetes clusters.

How can we bring the ease of use of a cloud Kubernetes service into this on-prem world?

In this 45-minute webinar, veteran Spectro Cloud Sr. Solutions Architect Jesse Benoit will show you how you can maintain the same user experience and workflow anywhere using Spectro Cloud Palette. He'll share practical insights, answer your questions, and bring it all together through a quick live demo.

If you're in an IT ops role in any organization that uses VMware with Kubernetes or plans to, don't miss this session.

What you'll learn:

- The basic differences between deploying and managing Kubernetes in the cloud vs on-prem in VMware vSphere
- The importance of declarative management, with an introduction to Cluster API (CAPI) and the Cluster API Provider vSphere (CAPV)
- How to build a Cluster Profile and deploy and manage with Spectro Cloud Palette
- How to deploy a Private Cloud Gateway in VMware’s Center

K8s on VMWare and vSphere

When developers are asking for Kubernetes infrastructure, they want it fast, consistent, and without limits! Platform engineering, IT, and DevOps teams are adopting Kubernetes as a Service (KaaS) now more than ever to streamline efficiency for dev teams and operations. But what happens when the requirement involves deploying clusters directly on top of bare metal servers and making sure the experience for multiple global dev teams is the same… everywhere?

In this webinar, Joe Searcy (Staff Engineer, T-Mobile), Anton Smith (Product Manager, Canonical), and Saad Malik (CTO and Co-founder, Spectro Cloud) talk about the challenge of building a repeatable process to deploy and offer K8s to developers without compromising on performance, cost and governance or disrupting the existing automation and processes in place.

What you will learn:

- The business requirement: driving organizational change to support new workloads using containers for multiple application development teams
- Why bare metal Kubernetes makes sense: benefits and adoption journey
- Bare metal challenges: why managing the Operating System is the critical layer and what are the implications
- The solution: how to treat bare metal Kubernetes clusters like any other cluster across Day 0 - Day 2 operations, and manage everything with one automation strategy
- The road ahead: what's next for modern Kubernetes management

Bare metal Kubernetes as a Service: How to have your cake and eat it too!

If your business is going all-in on Kubernetes, you need an environment that you can operate at scale. But as you build out your operating model you've probably discovered that there's no single best-practice approach to the underlying Kubernetes architecture.

The reality is you have many design decisions to make that will shape how your operating model functions every day: from how you give development teams access to clusters, to the approach you take to scaling applications. And the right answer varies from use case to use case and from user to user. 

In this webinar, Tyler and Sheldon will explore the decisions you need to make around cluster size, governance, access controls and day 2 operations, drawing on best practices from real Kubernetes users and sharing the implications you need to consider along the way. Finally, we’ll demonstrate some of the relevant features of Palette and how it can help!

What you'll learn:
- How the design of your Kubernetes environment impacts your operating model
- Which approach is right for you: big clusters or small, single- or multi-tenant
- Why role-based access control matters (a lot) and how to manage ops and dev access
- Best practices for multicluster management
- The importance of day 2 operations, including upgrading, scaling, backing up, cost and quota control

The salesy part: how Palette can help you bring everything together
We’ll also share an exclusive sneak peek at a unique new capability for running multiple clusters without adding complexity.

Kubernetes this or that: making the right architecture choices

You know that securing your Kubernetes clusters is critically important. But where do you start?

Join this webinar to hear Dmitry Shevrin, a senior solutions architect and Certified Kubernetes Security professional, share key best practices you can act on immediately to reduce your exposure.

In this webinar, we'll cover areas such as:

- Vulnerability scanning
- Access controls
- Patching and configuration management
- Secrets management
- Architecting for workload isolation

We'll talk you through design principles and the impact on your people and processes, as well as demoing some quick wins you can make using Spectro Cloud Palette to manage your clusters.
Of course, you'll have plenty of time for questions, and you're welcome to follow along using our Palette Free Tier. Sign up here for the free tier, no credit card required.

Kubernetes security best practices

55% of Kubernetes users say they will start or grow their use of edge Kubernetes in the next 12 months. If that includes you, this webinar is a must-see.

See the future of edge Kubernetes - Deploy, manage and secure at edge scale

A software bill of materials (SBOM) is one of the most important concepts you need to know to manage the security of your software supply chain.

An SBOM gives you visibility into all the components that make up your application, revealing dependencies and cataloguing known vulnerabilities that could otherwise expose your systems. 

The more complex and interconnected your application landscape, the more you need SBOMs — so if you’re adopting Kubernetes, you need to watch this webinar.

Join us to explore:

- What SBOMs are and why they matter in the world of cloud-native applications
- The best open-source tools and formats for creating SBOMs in Kubernetes environments
- How to incorporate SBOMs into your application lifecycles and K8s operations practices
- The new SBOM scan capability in Spectro Cloud Palette, and how to use it to manage your security attack surface

By the end of the webinar, you'll better understand how SBOM scans can help your organization stay secure and compliant, along with practical tips for getting started.

The power of SBOM: get the K8s security visibility you need, automatically

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