
Network Policies in Production: Securing Pod-to-Pod Communication
Network Policies provide pod-level network segmentation in Kubernetes, enabling micro-segmentation and defense-in-depth security strategies.

Network Policies provide pod-level network segmentation in Kubernetes, enabling micro-segmentation and defense-in-depth security strategies.

Kubernetes Dashboard 1.10 introduces login improvements, CRD views, and multi-cluster kubeconfig switching for on-call teams.

FluxCD 1.6 adds Helm Operator, image update automation, and namespace isolation—bringing GitOps workflows to production Kubernetes teams.

kind (Kubernetes in Docker) emerges as a powerful tool for local development and CI/CD testing, offering a lightweight alternative to minikube.

Kubernetes 1.12 introduces HPA v2beta2 with stable custom metrics support, enabling autoscaling on application metrics, queue depth, and cloud service metrics beyond CPU and memory.

Kubernetes 1.12 graduates kubelet TLS bootstrap and Azure VMSS to GA, introduces RuntimeClass, volume snapshot alpha, and major autoscaling improvements for large clusters.

Ambassador 1.0 provides a Kubernetes-native API gateway built on Envoy, delivering dynamic configuration, rate limiting, and observability for microservices.

Linkerd 2.0 rewrites the service mesh in Rust, adopting a sidecar model and Kubernetes-native configuration for better performance and simpler operations.

Traefik 1.7 expands beyond HTTP—adding TCP routing, Kubernetes CRDs, and Let's Encrypt wildcard support for production ingress control.

Istio 1.0 graduates the service mesh to production readiness with stable APIs, security hardening, and Kubernetes-native operations.