How to detect and stop DDoS attacks in a Kubernetes environment
DDoS or Distributed Denial of Service attacks have been around for a while and are notorious and painful to deal with (as with any other attack). As the name suggests, a DDoS attack causes an application or service to become unavailable to users due to resources exceeding it’s capacity and causing the app to either crash or become unresponsive. DDoS is a form of DoS where the attack comes from multiple sources (bots), usually spread across geographical locations.