K8S in Regulated Environment – Artem Semenov, Align Technology

As microservices and container-based infrastructure are becoming industry standards, new challenges with security and compliance appear for regulated companies.

While benefits of modern software architectures are clean (and many business around the world are already enjoying faster release cycles), scalability and maintainability for regulated industries like healthcare are slower to adopt them. And this happens for a good reason – for example, vanilla or managed Kubernetes is not compliant with medical data handling regulations for the USA out of the box.

In this session, I’m going to cover basic requirements for making K8S compliant with sensitive data handling regulations and possible technical solutions for making it happen no matter where you run your cluster – on-premise or with a major cloud provider.