According to Aviatrix, there’s a significant a security gap between virtual machines (VMs) and Kubernetes. For that reason, the company now offers a purpose-built firewall that supports both types of workloads.
Distributed Cloud Firewall for Kubernetes, announced at KubeCon/CloudNativeCon 2024, integrates with Aviatrix’s existing networking portfolio. What was still missing, according to the company, was a solution that provides VMs and Kubernetes with network security together without requiring constant updates due to a scale change. Instead, the new offering can automatically scale with activity within a network. In this, it corresponds to the general version of Distributed Cloud Firewall.
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No changed workflow required
Teams focused on a company’s cloud network and security departments do not need to change their workflow with the new firewall, Aviatrix said. However, it does allow them to assist app development teams with a dedicated solution from now on.
Aviatrix’s overall goal is to simplify Kubernetes adoption, and security cannot be left behind. There are quite a few vulnerabilities to consider in this branch, with configuration errors being the most prominent cause. Kubernetes does offer more and more security integrations with each new version, but in order to fall fully within organizations’ existing lines of defense, parties like Aviatrix want to improve their coverage as well.
Rob Strechay, Managing Director and Principal Analyst at theCUBE Research, also says Aviatrix’s new offering is an important addition. “Unlike other Kubernetes-specific network tooling solutions, Aviatrix enables operational efficiencies and simplifies security for both virtual machine or container-based applications that are currently deployed multicloud.”
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