Capital One begins journey as a software vendor with the release of Critical Stack Beta
Summary
It was one of the early users of Critical Stack , a tool designed to help build security into the container orchestration process.Capital One is embracing modern applications delivery methods like containerization , and it needed a tool specifically tuned to the security requirements of a financial services company.Critical Stack is compatible with Kubernetes, the popular container orchestration tool , but it’s been designed to provide a higher level of security than the base product, while giving large institutions like banks a packaged approach to container orchestration.Critical Stack does everything you would expect a Kubernetes distribution to do including managing the container delivery and lifecycle management, but it’s specifically designed to allow operations to automate security and compliance policies around the containers, something banks and other highly regulated businesses need to do.While he and his team found a broad set of use cases internally, they felt that getting the product into the hands of others would only help enhance it — and it doesn’t hurt they could make some money doing it.