Posts in 2022
Monitoring your EKS clusters audit logs
Friday, November 04, 2022 By Thomas Labarussias
At the beginning of this year, Falco introduced a game changing feature, the Falco Plugins. They allow Falco to monitor and trigger alerts for any kind of event. Since the launch of the new plugin framework the Falco community has collaborated to …
Using Falco to Protect GitHub
Tuesday, October 25, 2022 By Loris Degioanni
If you are reading this, your source code is likely your most important asset: not only it is at the base of the applications that power your business, but if you operate in the cloud, it’s also likely how you define and control your infrastructure. …
Falco 0.33.0 a.k.a. "the pumpkin release 🎃"
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 By Jason Dellaluce, Jacque Salinas
Dear community, today we are happy to announce the release of Falco 0.33.0 🎉! A big thank you to the community for helping get the latest release over the finish line. The Falco community rallied behind this release and we wanted to share some of the …
Running Falco on Apple Silicon
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 By Eduardo Minguez
Hello, Falcoers! Do you want to run Falco on Apple ARM M1 CPUs? Since Falco 0.32.1, you can! It requires a Linux virtual machine (VM) since Falco doesn't run on OSX, but it is pretty straightforward. Let's go step by step: Setting up the environment …
Getting started with gVisor support in Falco
Thursday, September 15, 2022 By Luca Guerra, Lorenzo Susini, Vicente J. Jiménez Miras
This post has been updated in December 2022 after initial publication. It now contains up-to-date instructions about how to use gVisor support on Docker and Kubernetes with GKE as well! The recommended version for gVisor support is now Falco 0.33.1 …
Falco Driverkit with Docker on Debian
Monday, September 05, 2022 By Vicente J. Jiménez Miras
We use different technologies on a daily basis. Tools like Vagrant, Terraform, Ansible, and many more allow us to create and destroy digital resources in a matter of minutes, if not seconds. However, if you keep changing your running environment, you …
Updating Falco’s governance documentation
Friday, September 02, 2022 By Jason Dellaluce, Leonardo Grasso
As a CNCF project, Falco is committed to promoting a healthy community of contributors and maintainers from multiple vendors. In aid of this, we are delighted to announce that we have updated the Falco governance documentation to help our maintainers …
Manage Falco easier with Giant Swarm App Platform
Tuesday, August 09, 2022 By Vicente J. Jiménez Miras
In this article, you will learn how Giant Swarm simplifies the maintenance of the software stack within Kubernetes clusters by using its App Platform technology. Additionally, we will show how customers can leverage this to easily deploy Falco, …
Falco 0.32.2
Tuesday, August 09, 2022 By Andrea Terzolo
Today we announce the release of Falco 0.32.2 🦅! Novelties 🆕 This release is really small, like a little 🐦, it only fixes the URL to download the falco BPF probe from Falco download page. A big thank you goes to eric-engberg, who proposed the fix, …
Falco 0.32.1
Monday, July 11, 2022 By Luca Guerra
Today we announce the release of Falco 0.32.1 🦅! Novelties 🆕 A bit more than a month has passed since the last release, and we already have 84 new commits in Falco (bringing the falcosecurity/falco repo to an even and eye pleasing total of 3,000 …