News/Systems From time to time, our systems engineers write up a case study detailing a notable moment on the infrastructure front lines. This month’s comes from Ale Crismani and Joshua Coughlan, systems wranglers who work on WordPress VIP. At Automattic, we use Kubernetes to orchestrate the infrastructure running WordPress VIP applications. We have firewall rules that ensure an application cannot connect to resources that are dedicated to other applications, and we monitor those firewall rules ...