Kubernetes Zero Trust
Ozone, a global leader in Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service, specializes in providing a streamlined approach for managing Kubernetes (K8s) deployments, addressing the complexities of Day-2 operations. As enterprises increasingly adopt container management tools like Kubernetes as part of their digital transformation, Ozone recognized a need for secure, private Kubernetes deployments. By partnering with NetFoundry and integrating OpenZiti, Ozone now offers secure, Kubernetes zero trust connectivity that simplifies private cluster management and automation, allowing enterprises to securely deploy applications without exposing their systems to external threats.
Case Study Highlights
Enhanced Cluster Security
Private Kubernetes clusters secured without public endpoint exposure.
Seamless Application Automation
Securely automated private cluster deployments, improving delivery speed.
Global Scalability Achieved
Kubernetes deployments managed securely across any cloud environment.
Navigating Private Cluster Challenges
Ozone tackles security and compliance hurdles in automating private Kubernetes cluster management.
Obstacle
Ozone’s platform supports enterprises in managing Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments, including private and public clouds. However, when dealing with private Kubernetes clusters, Ozone faced significant challenges:
- Security Requirements: Private clusters need to operate without any exposure to external attacks, essential for security-critical scenarios. These clusters have control plane private endpoints and nodes isolated from inbound and outbound traffic, which complicates app deployment, automation, and authentication.
- Compliance and Automation: While automation is crucial for application delivery, ensuring compliance with security requirements for private clusters across distributed environments proved difficult. The lack of publicly exposed endpoints meant that Ozone’s existing mechanisms struggled to deliver the necessary automation and integration capabilities required by modern, multi-cloud, microservice-oriented environments.
These challenges were significant as they impacted Ozone’s ability to provide streamlined and compliant solutions for enterprises looking to manage and automate application delivery on private clusters.
Opportunity
To overcome these challenges, Ozone partnered with NetFoundry’s OpenZiti, an open-source platform enabling private, programmable zero trust networking. OpenZiti provides software-powered microsegmented private networks, AppNets, that can operate securely within DevOps and GitOps models, allowing Ozone to implement security-as-code.
Ozone integrated Ziti SDKs into its agents, enabling them to establish secure tunnels from private network environments directly to Ozone’s control plane without exposing endpoints publicly. This innovative Kubernetes zero trust solution eliminated the need for traditional security measures such as IP allow lists, VPNs, and bastion hosts.
With Ziti’s capabilities:
- Ozone’s platform can now deploy applications to private clusters securely and efficiently.
- The control plane and API servers do not need to be publicly exposed, maintaining the integrity of Ozone’s private clusters.
- The platform provides high-performance, zero trust networking that overlays any internet connection, ensuring seamless and secure connectivity between clusters and the control plane.
Zero Trust Networking
Ozone leverages OpenZiti to secure private Kubernetes deployments with zero trust connectivity.
Ziti allowed us to innovate and drive new business with a competitive edge. Today, Ozone is the only CI/CD tool that automates private cluster deployments across any platform providing customers with zero trust, secured application delivery for private Kubernetes clusters.
Transforming Kubernetes Deployments
Ozone enhances security and efficiency with OpenZiti for seamless, scalable Kubernetes management.
Outcome
By integrating OpenZiti, Ozone transformed its Kubernetes deployment process and achieved several key benefits:
- Kubernetes Zero Trust Security: Ozone embedded high-performance, zero trust networking into its platform, ensuring that private clusters are protected without the need for bolted-on security measures like VPNs.
- Seamless Automation: Applications are now deployed to private clusters without compromising security or compliance, reducing operational overheads and improving application delivery speed.
- Global Scalability: With Ziti’s software-defined network, Ozone can securely manage Kubernetes deployments in any cloud environment, providing its enterprise customers with a reliable and scalable solution.
- Improved Efficiency: Ozone’s integration with Ziti reduced the complexity of Day-2 operations, providing secure connectivity that overlays on any internet connection and simplifying the overall deployment process for customers.
Kubernetes Zero Trust Networking
Ozone leveraged NetFoundry’s OpenZiti platform and AppNets to enhance its Kubernetes management capabilities, embedding secure connectivity directly into its solution.
By replacing traditional, complex networking methods, Ozone now offers a secure, scalable, and automated solution that enables enterprises to securely manage their private clusters and deploy applications seamlessly across any cloud environment.
About NetFoundry
Networking once limited application innovation and automation, with security and performance improvements often added as an afterthought. NetFoundry is transforming cybersecurity by embedding zero trust networking directly into code. Our NetFoundry Cloud solution integrates zero trust networking as software within apps, APIs, IoT devices, and critical infrastructure—rendering these assets invisible and unreachable to attackers.
As the world’s first programmable, cloud-native, zero trust network, NetFoundry Cloud delivers unmatched scale, concurrency, and performance. It empowers developers, network engineers, DevOps, and cloud teams to programmatically manage private, high-performance, zero trust networking with ease.
Built on the NetFoundry Platform and the Ziti architecture, our solution is available as open-source via the OpenZiti project, the world’s most widely integrated and trusted open-source networking platform. With NetFoundry, secure, zero trust networking is no longer an afterthought—it’s engineered directly into the core of digital infrastructure.
