Blogs tagged gardener

This blog post provides a comprehensive guide on how to utilize Kubernetes service accounts and their OIDC tokens to establish secure communication between two Kubernetes clusters, referred to as “upstream” and “downstream” clusters. Imagine... Read More »

Continuous Integration (CI) systems like Jenkins often use long-lived credentials to authenticate to Kubernetes clusters. While some CI systems have native support for issuing short-lived OpenID Connect (OIDC) tokens, Jenkins doesn’t have this... Read More »

Update (12.04.2023): Another approach leveraging Kubernetes’ native credential plugin is now available at the end of this post. Insufficient credential hygiene is one of the top security threats to automatic CI/CD pipelines and connected... Read More »

In this blog, I will share how you can use Kubernetes service accounts and their OIDC tokens to securely pull container images from private registries without having to copy secrets around. In this blog, I will focus on how to set it up using a... Read More »

Why open source? Are you fond of learning and of innovation? Do you enjoy trying out or sharing your knowledge with others? Would you like to be part of a global developer community? Then engaging with open source or contributing to open-source... Read More »

Gardener1.52.2 Universal Kubernetes at Scale 2.00.061.00.20220519.1 SAP BTP – an enterprise-grade Business Technology Platform and their eponymous SAP HANA database are now both accessible to indie developers and IT... Read More »

  This blog specifically deals with consuming Cloud foundry services with Canary/gardener instance on any of the cloud providers. This scenario is for private cloud Kubernetes instance within a company’s firewall. The idea is to have secure... Read More »

Authors: Vasu Chandrasekhara, Tim Usner   Happy new year Gardeners! As we greet 2021, we also celebrate Gardener’s third anniversary. Gardener was born with its first open source commit on 10.1.2018 (its inception within SAP was of course... Read More »

Project Gardener is about delivering fully-managed Kubernetes clusters –  kind of like Kubernetes as a Service – independent of the underlying cloud service like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud. Listen to this episode... Read More »

A great many enterprises are adopting cloud offerings based on cloud-native technologies, pushed by their digital transformation strategies. This technology shift is driven to a large degree by open source. As a cloud company, SAP also consumes and... Read More »