ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Fluent Bit
Fluent Bit is a super fast, lightweight, and highly scalable logging and metrics processor and forwarder best suited for cloud and containerized environments. The project’s architecture is both strong and durable, as well as lightweight and easy to transport. It is designed to handle a large volume of data quickly and efficiently, while using minimal … continue reading
Bugcrowd’s new offering allows for the purchasing, set up, and managing of pen tests online
The team at the multi-solution crowdsourced cybersecurity platform Bugcrowd today unveiled new features in its Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) solution that are geared towards allowing users to buy, set up, and manage pen tests online without having to conduct sales calls and scoping sessions. According to Bugcrowd, this offering is intended to solve … continue reading
D2iQ announces update to its managed Kubernetes platform
The D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP) 2.5 update simplifies multi-cluster and air-gapped deployments to give organizations greater consistency, visibility, security, and compliance across multi-cluster environments. Key enhancements in the new release include centralized multi-cloud, multi-cluster fleet management which enables customers to more easily manage a fleet of clusters through federated application management. Engineers can ensure consistency … continue reading
Report: Developers moving away from “DIY Kubernetes”
Back in 2020, 28% of respondents to VMware’s State of Kubernetes report were building Kubernetes on their own. Now, the 2023 version of the same survey is showing that only 16% of developers are building their own Kubernetes setups. According to VMware, this decrease is an indication that companies are realizing they don’t have infrastructure … continue reading
KubeCon Europe: Sumo Logic’s Predict for Metrics, Cosmonic Connect, and Solo.io’s Gloo Fabric
KubeCon Europe kicked off today in Amsterdam, and a number of companies have already shared their latest innovations at the event. Here are a few highlights so far: Sumo Logic announces Predict for Metrics Predictr for Metrics uses observability data to predict variable applications, cloud and infrastructure usage, and resource demands. The company believes the … continue reading
Apptio announces new capabilities geared towards helping government agencies accelerate cloud adoption
Technology spend and value management company Apptio recently unveiled several announcements at its Public Sector Summit 2023. Among these announcements was the launch of Apptio’s Cloudability Government, a cloud financial management solution that is geared at helping public sector organizations improve their data-driven decision making when it comes to cloud investments across cloud service providers. … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cerbos
Cerbos is a scalable, open-source authorization layer for implementing roles and permissions that was created in early 2021. With the project, users have the ability to separate and manage authorization logic in a central location for all their applications and services. By doing so, they can eliminate redundant efforts, have better visibility, and apply changes … continue reading
Report: Cloud funding is drying up among VCs
The pandemic and low interest rates fueled a big wave of cloud adoption, but that is all starting to dry up. This is according to Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) in their State of the Cloud 2023 report, which looks at cloud adoption through the lens of funding and market conditions. If you compare the cloud … continue reading
Kubernetes v1.27 replaces default image registry
The first Kubernetes release of 2023, Kubernetes v1.27 has been announced and it consists of 60 new enhancements, 18 of which are entering alpha and 13 of which are graduating to Stable. With this release, the image registry, k8sgcr.io, has been replaced with registry.k8s.io, which is fully controlled by the community. The old registry will … continue reading
Delivering zero trust security for Kubernetes in 6 steps
It’s no secret that businesses and organizations are embracing cloud services, containers, and other innovations to boost business productivity, scale more efficiently, and better manage infrastructure costs. However, transitioning legacy environments to the cloud introduces new challenges around securing dynamic and ephemeral cloud infrastructure. How can organizations unlock the full potential of the cloud without … continue reading
Intel and Arm announce partnership for building SOCs
Intel Foundry and Arm announced a collaboration to develop a new line of advanced system-on-chip (SoC) designs on the Intel 18A processors. The move is part of Intel’s IDM 2.0 strategy to invest in leading-edge manufacturing capacity around the world. The collaboration aims to combine Arm’s industry-leading CPU technology with Intel’s advanced process technologies for … continue reading
Linkerd 2.13 introduces dynamic request routing, circuit breaking, and automated health monitoring
Buoyant, creator of the CNCF’s graduated mesh service Linkerd, today announced the release of Linkerd 2.13. With this, users gain dynamic request routing based on the Kubernetes Gateway API, circuit breaking for overloaded services, a FIPS-compatible version for government users, and more. Additionally, Linkerd 2.13 provides users with a set of free security and reliability … continue reading
PagerDuty brings end-to-end IT automation with new AIOps offering
PagerDuty has announced that PagerDuty AIOps is now generally available, enabling its customers to have access to new automation capabilities that can be applied to their IT departments. The new offering includes capabilities aimed at reducing the amount of time that IT teams are spending on managing multiple vendors and manual processes. These include things … continue reading
NetBox Labs raises $20 million in series A funding
The open-source startup NetBox Labs announced that it received $20 million in a Series A funding round following the company’s spin-out from NS1, which IBM acquired. “With the increasingly dynamic, distributed, and critical nature of networks, combined with the explosion of devices and the rapid transition of every enterprise to SaaS and connected systems, networking … continue reading
