James Strong

What Does Rugby Have To Do With Sigstore?

Cosign, fulcio, rekor are all components in keyless signing with Sigstore. Each piece has its responsibility to provide a smooth developer experience for container signing. How does it all work together to complete that complicated dance to tie identity to cryptographic signatures? And what’s more cryptic than rugby? In this talk, James and Lewis will educate attendees about sigstore and container signing using examples from the best sport in the world, rugby.

Understanding the Future of Ingress-nginx

Understanding the Future of Ingress-nginx - James Strong, Chainguard & Ricardo Katz, VMware Speakers: Ricardo Katz, James Strong In this talk, we will present the survey results from our Ingress-nginx community survey. The survey’s goal was to know what we should be doing for future releases and how to prioritize features, bugs, or other issues important to the community. The ingress-nginx project is undergoing a stabilization project as well. This stabilization project has worked to increase the security, review and deprecate older features, and fix long-standing issues with the project.

Chainguard Live: All About That Base Image

The Chainguard team has released a new whitepaper titled “All About That Base Image.” The whitepaper proposes “quiet” base images, minimal images with few or no security vulnerabilities, and other security features built-in. The intended audience is software development teams that use containers and are interested in reducing the workload associated with investigating and mitigating security vulnerabilities. The whitepaper helps software professionals better understand the security debt of popular base images by analyzing the number, severity, and lifetime of vulnerabilities.