{"id":35547,"date":"2018-06-21T21:22:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T21:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=6d19be7f7db91f73be567ae23cb794db"},"modified":"2018-06-21T21:22:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T21:22:27","slug":"demand-for-kubernetes-skills-soars-eight-fold-in-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/demand-for-kubernetes-skills-soars-eight-fold-in-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand for Kubernetes skills soars eight-fold in two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field-name-field-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"field-item even\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/authors\/clare-hopping\">Clare Hopping<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">22 Jun, 2018<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"short-teaser\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/\" title=\"\" class=\"combined-link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body\">\n<p> More businesses are seeking out qualified Kubernetes developers and engineers as they turn to the tech for building their DevOps environments, a report by\u00a0security software company CyberArk has found.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s\u00a0IT Jobs Watch report revealed that demand for Kubernetes skills has grown\u00a0by 752% over the last two years, making it one of the most in-demand IT industries in terms of growth &#8211; rising\u00a0up 729 places to the top 250 most needed roles in IT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKubernetes has become a massive money word, and these figures show that DevOps teams are seeking more skills to help them manage and deploy applications at scale,\u201d said Josh Kirkwood, DevOps Security Lead at CyberArk said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a very real danger that the rush to achieve IT and business advantages will outpace awareness of the security risks. If privileged accounts in Kubernetes are left unmanaged, and attackers get inside the control panel, they could gain control of an organisation\u2019s entire IT infrastructure,\u201d Kirkwood said.<\/p>\n<p>However, he warned that if businesses rush to onboard inexperienced Kubernetes staff, they risk opening up their organisation to attack. This is demonstrated in another CyberArk report, which revealed many of the\u00a0DevOps professionals being employed by organisations have security knowledge gaps &#8211; particularly around\u00a0privileged accounts and secrets and\u00a0container environments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany organisations simply task the same DevOps hires\u00a0\u2013\u00a0often with no security experience\u00a0\u2013\u00a0to protect these new Kubernetes environments, in addition to the numerous other responsibilities they have to deliver,&#8221;\u00a0Kirkwood added. &#8220;That\u2019s no longer sufficient, and security teams need to get more closely involved to support the platform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kirkwood advised that businesses take advantage of cross-team collaboration to ensure they are able to recruit those needed to fill roles, while also securing their existing infrastructure sufficiently to ensure they can create the safest, secure and effective DevOps environment. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>      Clare Hopping<\/p>\n<p>        22 Jun, 2018    <\/p>\n<p>       More businesses are seeking out qualified Kubernetes developers and engineers as they turn to the tech for building their DevOps environments, a report by\u00a0security software company CyberArk ha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35548,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35547\/revisions\/35548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}