ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: PowerfulSeal
PowerfulSeal is a testing tool for Kubernetes clusters built by Bloomberg and inspired by Netflix’s Chaos Monkey. The tool, which was first presented at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017, is aimed specifically at Kubernetes, and includes the ability to describe the objects running in each container so that it knows precisely which things it … continue reading
Transposit announces advanced ticketing capabilities to modernize ITSM
Connected workflow company Transposit announced Activities, which is a new feature that applies automation to ITSM processes. It provides a single source of truth across issues, incidents, and requests. Every action taken by both human and machine throughout any activity within the Transposit Timeline is captured through auto-tickets. Data and actionability are brought neatly together to … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cloud Hypervisor Project
The Linux Foundation announced that it will host the Cloud Hypervisor project, which delivers a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) for modern Cloud workloads. The project is supported by Alibaba, ARM, ByteDance, Intel and Microsoft. The project is written in Rust and focuses on security features such as CPU, memory and device hot plug; support for … continue reading
Broadcom to acquire AppNeta to bolster network performance monitoring
Broadcom announced its intent to acquire the privately held company AppNeta, a SaaS-based network performance monitoring solution for the distributed enterprise that provides IT teams with precise, end-to-end visibility into network performance. With AppNeta’s SaaS-based solution, IT and Network Ops teams at distributed enterprises can detect issues that affect network and business-critical cloud application performance, … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Istio
Istio is an open source service mesh that simplifies observability, traffic management, security, and policy. It extends Kubernetes to establish a programmable, application-aware network using the Envoy service proxy. Istio 1.12 was recently launched with an improved experience with WebAssembly that allows users to dynamically load custom-built extensions at runtime through an API. The latest … continue reading
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 introduces automation mesh
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 is now generally available. New additions and more flexible automation architectures will enable customers to onboard more easily. Automation mesh is a new addition that replaces isolated nodes that were featured in version 1.2. Now, the automation control plane and execution plane are fully decoupled. Users can run automation … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Goldpinger
Goldpinger is a networking monitoring tool for Kubernetes that works by making calls between its instances. It runs as a DaemonSet on Kubernetes, which is used to manage groups of replicated pods on Kubernetes. It produces Prometheus metrics that can be scraped, visualised and alerted on. “We built Goldpinger to troubleshoot, visualise and alert on … continue reading
ITOps news digest: AWS announces the availability of Amazon EC2 R6i instances, Red Hat bolters partnerships, IOTech partners with Google Cloud
The general availability of Amazon EC2 R6i instances are designed for memory-intensive workloads. Like M6i and C6i instances, these new R6i instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, building blocks that can offload a lot of the traditional virtualization functions to dedicated, delivering high performance, high availability, and highly secure cloud instances. The new … continue reading
Kyndryl and VMware expand their modernization-focused partnership
Kyndryl and VMware today announced that they will expand their existing app modernization and multicloud services partnership. According to the companies, the primary goal of the expanded partnership is to accelerate IT and business reinvention for customers through the integration of the two companies’ offerings, which includes Kyndryl’s design, build, and managed services. “We’re excited … continue reading
Palo Alto Networks launches several new security capabilities
Palo Alto Networks today introduced new products and capabilities including Prisma Cloud 3.0, Cortex eXtended Managed Detection and Response (XMDR) Partner Specialization, and Next-generation CASB. Prisma Cloud 3.0 Prisma Cloud 3.0 is an integrated platform designed to shift security left and to improve a company’s security posture by reducing security risks at runtime. The solution … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Checkov
Checkov is a static code analysis tool for infrastructure-as-code that scans cloud infrastructure provisioned using Terraform, Terraform plan, Cloudformation, Kubernetes, Dockerfile, Serverless, or ARM Templates. It detects security and compliance misconfigurations using graph-based scanning. The open-source project also powers Bridgecrew, which is platform for codifying and streamlining cloud security throughout the development life cycle. Checkov … continue reading
IoT Consortium evolves into Emerging Tech Exchange
The Internet of Things Consortium (IoTC) announced the evolution into Emerging Tech Exchange, which will expand the association’s focus beyond just connected devices and into technology that leverages augmented reality, gamification, robotics, deep learning, and AI. “The Emerging Tech Exchange draws upon the success of the IoTC, where our members not only had a front-row … continue reading
