Five common questions about observability
Observability has emerged as a key capability that successful organizations need in order to deliver improved digital services to customers, employees and partners. It is especially relevant for today’s IT Ops environments where flexibility has given way to complexity for highly distributed and hybrid environments. ITOps Times recently asked Sudip Datta, head of AIOps & … continue reading
Weave GitOps Enterprise reaches general availability
Weaveworks, the company who first coined the term “GitOps,” has announced the general availability of Weave GitOps Enterprise. Weave GitOps Enterprise is a commercial offering that builds on the open source GitOps Core project. It adds features that will be beneficial to companies with large Kubernetes deployments. “Weave GitOps Enterprise is the first enterprise GitOps … continue reading
AWS re:Invent: AWS EBS Snapshots Archive and Recycle Bin; AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform; AWS IoT Greengrass now integrates with AWS Systems Manager
AWS’ annual re:Invent conference kicked off yesterday in Las Vegas, NE, and already the company has made a number of announcements. In addition, several other companies have announced updates at the event. Here are a few highlights of the news so far: Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive and Recycle Bin announced Amazon EBS is a block … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Kublr’s Microsoft Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes validation; Snyk Security Intelligence integration; and Datadobi’s Google Cloud Storage validation
Kubernetes management company Kublr has announced that it has gained validation as a Microsoft Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes provider. This means that Kublr customers will be able to integrate their Azure cloud footprints with their data center and multi-cloud capacity, which will enable them to manage applications across multiple locations. Kublr already supports several Microsoft Azure … 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
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Trivy
Trivy is an open-source project developed by Aqua Security that scans for vulnerabilities and configuration issues in container images, file systems, and Git repositories. It detects vulnerabilities of operating system packages, such as Alpine, RHEL, and CentOS, and language-specific packages, such as Bundler, Composer, npm, yarn, and more. It can also scan Infrastructure as Code … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: VMware Cross-Cloud services in AWS Marketplace; AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery; Microsoft and JetStream partnership
VMware has announced that Carbon Black Cloud and Tanzu are now available on the AWS Marketplace. According to VMware, this will provide customers with benefits like accelerating applications modernization, migrating workloads to the cloud, adopting a cloud operating model, and securely connecting a distributed workforce to cloud-based resources. “Whether a customer has transitioned their business … continue reading
Overcoming the barriers to self-service operations
Many organizations are moving to an operations model that focuses more on service ownership, where developers or operators take responsibility for their code or services throughout the application life cycle. According to Jake Cohen, senior solutions consultant for PagerDuty, during a webinar on ITOps Times, there are a number of reasons to move to an … 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 news digest: PagerDuty updates; 1Password 8 for Windows; Rust Foundation Cloud Compute Program
PagerDuty has announced the release of new capabilities to its platform to help customers automate more incident response processes. The new Event Orchestration capability allows teams to create custom logic for controlling routing based on event conditions. Other new features include a fully managed cloud version of Rundeck, new service standards, and new change events … continue reading
AIOps is a story of higher dimensions
Could you ever imagine we’d better learn the lessons of a 19th Century English schoolmaster for managing modern digital infrastructures? In 1884, the English schoolmaster, theologian and priest Edwin Abbott published a work of scientific fantasy entitled Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Flatland is a satirical two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures. The book … 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
