This post will go through the Antrea-native policy resources and how to use them to secure your Kubernetes environment combined with K8s network policies. Abbreviations used in this article: Container Network Interface = CNI Antrea Cluster Network Policies = ACNP Antrea Network Policies = ANP Kubernetes Network …

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What is the NSX Antrea integration Assumptions: I assume that the reader is aware of what Antrea is, and what a CNI is and also what NSX is. If not head over here to read more on Antrea and here to read more on NSX. For many years VMware NSX has help many customer secure their workload by using the NSX Distributed …

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This week I was fortunate to get hold of a VMC on AWS environment and wanted to test out the possibility of managing my K8s security policies from my on-prem NSX manager by utilizing the integration of Antrea in NSX. I haven't covered that specific integration part in a blog yet, but in short: by using Antrea as your …

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VMware NSX 3.2 is out and packed with new features. One of them is the NSX Application Platform which runs on Kubernetes to provide the NSX ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) functionality such as NSX Intelligence (covered in a previous post), NSX Network Detection and Response (NDR) and NSX Malware. This post will go …

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This post will go through the IDS/IPS built-in feature of the NSX distributed firewall. Abbreviations used in this article: IDS = Intrusion Detection System IPS = Intrusion Prevention System Introduction to VMware NSX distributed IDS & IPS Before we dive into how to configure and use the distributed IDS and IPS …

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