Shopify and Security, with Jon Pulsifer

Jon Pulsifer is a Production Security Engineer at Shopify, and Canada's biggest Kubernetes fan. Adam and Craig dig into why, and what Adam's new mode of transport is going to be.

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Chatter

• Sling TV using Kubernetes
  • Tesla using Kubernetes?
• MITMproxy, Charles and Fiddler
  • Intercept HTTP traffic exiting a docker container
• Adam has a lot of EconoLodge points
  • Not as many as Software Defined Talk hosts Matt Ray and Michael Coté
  • Craig thinks he should spend them on the Pepsi jet as seen in this wonderful video

News of the week

• Service Networking in a Hybrid Infrastructure by Praveen Shukla from GoJek
• KubeCon and CloudNativeCon China
  • Craig's session
• 7 best practices for operating containers by Théo Chamley from Google Cloud
• kustomize on Homebrew for macOS
• Understanding the Container Storage Interface (CSI) by Anoop Vijayan Maniankara
• The Istio 1.0 Release Stream or jump straight to the part with Dan Ciruli from episode 15

Links from the interview

• Royal Canadian Navy - Canadian Forces NOC
• SANS institute and instructors
• Jon Pulsifer is a Production Security Engineer at Shopify
  • Why Shopify Moved to The Production Engineering Model
  • Production Engineering from Facebook
  • SRE from Google
  • They're hiring!
• Shopify's adopting Kubernetes and Google Cloud
• The evolution of Kubernetes security
  • Before RBAC, you used to have to mount an empty directory over the service account to disable access to it
  • seccomp and AppArmor
  • RBAC
  • PodSecurityPolicy
  • gVisor and Kata Containers
  • Planning for Secure Container Isolation in Kubernetes
  • RuntimeClass enhancement proposal
• Binary Authorization
  • Launch blog post
  • Kritis - open source reference implementation of Binary Authorization (the judge)
  • Grafaes - API spec for Container Analysis API
  • Shopify Voucher, a tool that creates attestations for Binary Authorization and prevents the deployment of images that don't meet Shopify's security requirements.
  • Jon's talk on Binary Authorization at Google Cloud Next: Securing the Software Supply Chain
• Shopify's $25,000 Kubernetes bug bounty payout
  • What is a server-side request forgery?
• Getting started with security by reading kubesec.io
• Around Ottawa
  • Kubernetes Ottawa meetup
  • GDG Cloud Ottawa
  • Jon's car
• Jon Pulsifer on Twitter