CNCF accepts Kubescape as its first security and compliance scanner project

• kubescape

  76 9,686 9.5 Go

  Kubescape is an open-source Kubernetes security platform for your IDE, CI/CD pipelines, and clusters. It includes risk analysis, security, compliance, and misconfiguration scanning, saving Kubernetes users and administrators precious time, effort, and resources.

  

• regolibrary

  5 108 9.5 Open Policy Agent

  The regolibrary package contains the controls Kubescape uses for detecting misconfigurations in Kubernetes manifests.

  

The question you're asking is missing the important piece: how useful are they _to whom_.

To a developer, think of them as glorified linters (most of them are, including Kubescape, I believe). Someone on your team chooses which included things should be flagged (e.g. "require resource limits to be set on pods", see the list here: https://github.com/kubescape/regolibrary), and then the tool yells at you when you try to do something it doesn't like. It's then up to you to figure out how to comply with the tool's decisions. Some people really like them, some people really hate them.

To an engineering manager or SRE team, I think they're great at preventing common errors that would otherwise be enforced through code reviews or other processes; they're basically the remediation after an outage where a pod OOMed ("if we set sane resource limits and enforce them, this won't happen" --> enforce resource limits policy).

To your company's legal and compliance team, they usually fulfill a checkbox requirement along the way to $COMPLIANCE_FRAMEWORK. By the time your company is at sufficient scale, you'll have a number of these, and automation is the only way to keep everyone sane (developers and auditors alike).

In general, I think they're well intentioned, and can be useful, but aren't a panacea--they aren't going to catch anything you're not already looking for, they're just going to make it easier to remedy/enforce the problems you already know about.

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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