ITOps Times news digest: Ansible Automation Platform 1.2, new Tardigrade integrations, and Google launches Voucher
Red Hat has announced the release of Ansible Automation Platform 1.2. The latest release focused on improving efficiency, increasing productivity, and controlling risk and expenses. New features include a private Automation Hub, enhancements to the automation services catalog, and new Ansible-maintained Certified Content Collections for popular IT platforms. Storj Labs introduces new integrations for Tardigrade … continue reading
KubeCon North America 2020: Kubernetes Security Specialist certification, Red Hat OpenShift update, and TrilioVault for Kubernetes 2.0
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 kicked off today virtually. Here are a number of announcements from the event: Kubernetes Security Specialist certification now available This certification was first announced by the Linux Foundation and CNCF in July. The Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) requires a two-hour, performance-based exam to prove that a person possesses … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Dynatrace PurePath 4, StorMagic and HPE partnership, and Quantum’s ActiveScale updates
Dynatrace has announced the release of PurePath 4. PurePath is a distributed tracing and code analysis tool, and version 4 expands support for OpenTelemetry, W3C Trace Context, and the latest cloud-native architectures, like service mesh and serverless computing for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. “We pioneered distributed tracing with the introduction of PurePath in … continue reading
StrongDM adds support for securing access to more types of tools
Single sign-on (SSO) for backend infrastructure provider strongDM has announced that it now offers the ability to secure access to all classes of tools that technical staff use. The company has extended support over the past two years to include more database management, SSH, RDP, and kubectl. Other new support include delegation of credentials to … continue reading
Graylog 4.0 to introduce new open source license
Log management company Graylog has announced that it is introducing a Server Side Public License (SSPL) to its open source product in the Graylog 4.0 release, which is available later this week. According to Graylog, SSPL provides similar open source rights as GPL v3. It also extends those rights to cover cloud and SaaS offerings. … continue reading
Hivelocity and Vapor IO team up on bare metal cloud
Bare metal cloud provider Hivelocity has announced it is teaming up with Vapor IO to extend its bare metal cloud to service providers in 36 US cities, starting in Pittsburgh and Atlanta. Vapor IO’s Kinetic Edge platform brings together multi-tenant colocation with software defined interconnection and high-speed networking. According to Hivelocity, the platform provides flexible, … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Tinkerbell
Tinkerbell is a tool that enables users to provision and manage bare metal. It helps standardize infrastructure and application management using the API-centric configuration and automation approach that was pioneered by the Kubernetes community. It is made up of four major components: a DHCP server called Boots, a metadata service called Hegel, an in-memory operating … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Instana expands automated monitoring suite, TriggerMesh Cloud Native Integration Platform, and Barracuda acquires Fyde
Instana has announced that it now offers the ability to monitor and trace applications using Google Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, and Storage technologies. “As organizations push their applications to run faster and operate more efficiently, they’re taking advantage of cloud-based software infrastructure platforms such as Google Cloud Storage, PubSub and Cloud Run,” said Chris Farrell, Observability … continue reading
Isovalent launches to help companies utilize Cilium
Isovalent has launched with $29 million in Series A funding to help companies connect, observe, and secure applications with Cilium, which is an eBPF-based networking, security, and observability tool. Cilium’s approach to networking frees applications from outdated techniques that place limits on the agility that is needed to adopt Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies. Isovalent … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Palo Alto Networks DLP, Trend Micro Cloud One – Network Security, and ThreatQuotient’s Infoblox integration
Palo Alto Networks has announced a new data loss prevention solution called Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP). According to the company, the solution helps prevent data breaches by identifying intellectual property and PII throughout the enterprise, facilitating regulatory compliance, and inhibiting risky user behavior. “Data breaches are a huge and growing problem worldwide, but the … continue reading
Jira Service Management launches to help IT teams with modern incident management
Atlassian is introducing Jira Service Management, which is a new ITSM solution. The platform is designed to help bring developers and IT operations teams together to collaborate at high velocity, enabling them to quickly respond to business changes and deliver great customer service. According to the company, Jira Service Management is the next generation of … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: NoisePage
This week’s selected project is Carnegie Mellon University’s relational database management system (DBMS) NoisePage. NoisePage is designed for autonomous deployment, and uses integrated machine learning components to control configuration, optimization, and tuning. It also supports capabilities like automated physical database design, knob configuration tuning, SQL tuning, and hardware capacity/scaling. “Our research focuses on building the … continue reading
