ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: kube-monkey
Kube-monkey is an implementation of Netflix’s Chaos Monkey specifically for Kubernetes clusters. It works by randomly removing Kubernetes (k8s) pods in the cluster, encouraging and validating the development of failure-resilient services. According to GitHub, kube-monkey runs at a pre-configured hour on weekdays and creates a schedule of deployments that will experience a pod death at … continue reading
Microsoft introduces new cost management updates
Microsoft recently announced several updates that have been made regarding cloud cost management. These updates are intended to bring users visibility into what they are spending and where they are spending it so there are no surprises when it comes to the bill. The first of these updates is the ability to view costs in … continue reading
SysAid launches AI Service Desk
SysAid, provider of IT service automation, today announced the release of its AI Service Desk, a conversational chatbot operating within Microsoft Teams that is powered by SysAid’s IT automation capabilities. The service desk works to reduce the time spent by employees and IT experts on ticket resolution, to increase productivity, and allow those workers to … continue reading
Sysdig introduces Drift Control to prevent runtime container attacks
The unified container and cloud security company Sysdig, today announced Drift Control in order to prevent container attacks at runtime. With this, teams have the ability to detect, prevent, and accelerate incident response for containers that were modified in production. The company also stated that it has enhanced malware and cryptomining detection with new threat … continue reading
ServiceNow announces LightStep Notebooks
ServiceNow, the SaaS cloud and computing software company, today announced LightStep Notebooks in order to deliver unified, comprehensive analysis across applications and infrastructure. This release allows developers to analyze data through visualizations while creating a structured view of the investigation steps as well as a path to resolution. LightStep Notebooks also enables SREs and developers … continue reading
Canonical Ubuntu Core 22 now available
Today, the software company Canonical announced that the fully containerized Ubuntu 22.04 LTS variant, Ubuntu Core 22, is now generally available. This release is optimized for IoT edge devices and, combined with Canonical’s technology offer, provides Ubuntu’s comprehensive operating system (OS) and services to a range of embedded and IoT devices. Ubuntu Core 22 works … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Orb
Backed by NS1 Labs, Orb is an open-source tool for edge observability that utilizes dynamic policy orchestration in order to extract real-time insights from traffic streams at the edge. Those insights are then transformed into actions through integration with modern observability stacks, leading to accelerated time-to-action and a reduction in price. With Orb, users can … continue reading
Qualys launches VMDR 2.0 with TruRisk scoring
Qualys, provider of cloud-based IT, security, and compliance solutions, today announced the release of Qualys Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response (VMDR) 2.0. This release offers users insights into an organization’s unique risk posture as well as the ability to use drag and drop workflows to orchestrate responses. According to the company, VMDR 2.0 offers TruRisk … continue reading
How LogicMonitor evolved their monitoring
Digital transformation and making the transition into the cloud is a topic that has been widely discussed within the technology community. While the process of moving away from on-premise and towards the cloud can seem daunting, there are countless benefits that make this shift worth the trouble. In a recent ITOps Times Live! event sponsored … continue reading
Red Hat partners with U.S. DOE Labs to improve cloud-native standards
Red Hat, provider of open-source solutions, today announced that it will be entering into a partnership with several U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories in order to improve cloud-native standards and practices in high-performance computing (HPC). Among these labs are Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories. By combining Red … continue reading
JFrog and ServiceNow announce integration
JFrog, a DevOps company, introduced new integrations for JFrog Xray with ServiceNow’s Lightstep Incident Response and Spoke products for IT Service Management. These integrations are intended to provide IT leaders with real-time security, vulnerability, and compliance insights in order to react quickly and engage necessary team members from across the organization for more immediate remediation. … continue reading
CNCF and Linux Foundation announce the Prometheus Certified Associate exam
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and The Linux Foundation today announced their new exam to test foundational knowledge and skills using Prometheus, the Prometheus Certified Associate exam (PCA). The PCA is a pre-professional certification intended for engineers or application developers that have an interest in observability and monitoring within the Prometheus ecosystem. The exam … continue reading
