Welcome to CloudSec Academy, your guide to navigating the alphabet soup of cloud security acronyms and industry jargon. Cut through the noise with clear, concise, and expertly crafted content covering fundamentals to best practices.
A base image is the foundational layer of every container—it acts like the container’s operating system (OS), providing core files, dependencies, and configurations needed to run your application.
Learn the principles of cloud workload protection platforms (CWPP), how to apply them, and why a unified cloud security platform offers enhanced protection.
Container vulnerability management is the process of finding and fixing flaws throughout the container stack.
A KBOM inventories every orchestration-layer component—from control-plane services and node binaries to CNI plugins and custom resources.
This post explains where traditional cost tools fall short in Kubernetes, the core metrics that matter, practical tactics for eliminating waste, and how modern platforms—Wiz included—blend cost and security data into a single actionable view.
Get Kubernetes RBAC best practices all in one place. Plus, learn actionable tips for beginners and advanced cloud security teams (and tools to use to improve).
Choosing the right Kubernetes alternative for container orchestration helps you simplify deployments, improve scalability, and meet your infrastructure’s needs.
Discover essential Kubernetes monitoring tools and best practices to optimize performance, enhance security, and ensure seamless cluster management.
Learn how containers as a service can streamline your deployments, boost scalability, and strengthen security while tackling key challenges and risks.
Learn how container orchestration can automate deployment and management for containerized workloads. Find out best practices for an efficient and secure cloud.
Compare containers and virtual machines (VMs) to learn their security, performance, and scalability differences. Find the right approach for your cloud.
Container monitoring is the process of collecting, analyzing, and reporting metrics and data related to the performance and health of containerized applications and their hosting environments.
Learn how container images work, their role in deployment, security risks, and best practices to streamline and protect your cloud-native applications.
Secure your Kubernetes workloads with best practices to prevent threats, protect your containers, and strengthen access controls for a safer cloud environment.
The primary function of admission controllers is the enforcement of custom policies on incoming requests, ensuring that only valid and compliant API requests are executed.
Docker containers leverage the Docker Engine (a platform built on top of Linux containers) to simplify the software development process.
A Kubernetes secret is an object in the Kubernetes ecosystem that contains sensitive information (think keys, passwords, and tokens)
In this blog post, you’ll discover how Kubernetes plays a crucial role in AI/ML development. We’ll explore containerization’s benefits, practical use cases, and day-to-day challenges, as well as how Kubernetes security can protect your data and models while mitigating potential risks.
Understanding the nuances of Linux containers is crucial for building robust, secure applications. This blog post provides insights into the practical implementation of containers, focusing on both their strengths and potential pitfalls.
At their core, containers encapsulate the application code and runtime, system tools, dependencies, and settings that enable it to operate in the same way across multiple environments.
Our goal with this article is to share the best practices for running complex AI tasks on Kubernetes. We'll talk about scaling, scheduling, security, resource management, and other elements that matter to seasoned platform engineers and folks just stepping into machine learning in Kubernetes.
Containerization encapsulates an application and its dependencies into a container image, facilitating consistent execution across any host operating system supporting a container engine.
Cloud workload security protects workloads as they move across cloud environments through monitoring, access controls, encryption, and segmentation.
A Kubernetes cluster consists of a group of node machines designed to run applications within containers.
Helm Charts streamline the deployment of applications by providing a packaging format that includes all necessary Kubernetes resources.
