Cloud cyber resilience specialist Accurics Inc. today announced that its open-source project Terrascan now integrates with the Argo Project to enhance cloud security.

Terrascan is used to manage and process all types of point clouds. The service offers import and project structuring tools to handle the massive amounts of points of a laser scanning campaign as well as the corresponding trajectory information.

The Argo Project is a collection of projects that allow users to “get stuff done” with Kubernetes. Argo itself is an open-source GitOps engine for Kubernetes that synchronizes clusters of software application containers, making it easier to specify, schedule and coordinate the running of complex workflows and applications on Kubernetes.

The integration of Terrascan with the Argo Project, along with a new Terrascan admission controller feature to enforce Cloud Native Computing Foundation Open Policy Agent policies is said to significantly enhance cloud security as developers adopt a GitOps approach.

The integration between Terrascan and Argo brings the ability to scan repositories for violations to the cluster through automated processes that extend from the source code to the controller. The automatic process is claimed to ensure that the full pipeline, from development to end-user machine, is secure and fully aligned.

“Optimal security in cloud-native infrastructure requires constant innovation at different levels of the architecture, with seamless integration, revitalized support, and ongoing deployments,” said Om Moolchandani, co-founder, chief technology officer and chief information security officer at Accurics, said in a statement. “As the Kubernetes ecosystem expands and developers adopt GitOps with Infrastructure as Code and Deployment as Code, they need security tools that fit into these automated, codified workflows where experts cannot review every finding.”

The announcement follows the release of a Terrascan’s admission controller, a new capability that can apply Policy as Code uniformly across the software development lifecycle. PaC has gained popularity for establishing guardrails in the development process, enabling the detection of misconfigurations in Kubernetes manifests ahead of production.

Accurics also recently released Terrascan integration with Atlantis, an open-source Terraform automation platform that leverages an organization’s code repository, such as Git, to streamline and automate Terraform workflows.

The announcement of the new integration came during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe running this week.

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