Linkerd becomes first service mesh to graduate CNCF
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) recently announced the graduation of Linkerd, which was the first project to join the CNCF Sandbox. Linkerd now becomes the first service mesh project to achieve graduated status, which indicates that the project has shown widespread adoption, an open governance process, feature maturity, and a commitment to community, sustainability, … continue reading
HashiCorp Vault 1.8 released with new Vault Diagnose command
HashiCorp Vault 1.8 offers a new Vault Diagnose command, Key Management secrets engine AWS GA support, updates to Integrated Storage Autopilot, and more. The new ‘vault operator diagnose’ command enables users to do faster troubleshooting and user-friendly diagnostics in situations when Vault is not starting. “Troubleshooting is a fundamental task for Vault operators. However, root … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: ONAP
The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) is a platform for orchestration, management, and automation of network and edge computing services. ONAP enables administrators to rapidly automate new services and support complete life cycle management. “By unifying the resources of open source members, ONAP enables the acceleration of the development of a vibrant ecosystem around a … continue reading
CSA releases Cloud Threat Modeling guide
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has released a new Cloud Threat Modeling guide to help provide guidance on threat modeling for cloud applications, their services, and related security decisions. The guide was written by the CSA Top Threats Working Group. The group hopes that the Cloud Threat Modeling guide will provide organizations with an up-to-date … continue reading
Report: IT workers experiencing increasingly inconsistent and heavy workloads
IT workers have been experiencing inconsistent and heavy workloads this year ever since the shift to remote work. According to PagerDuty’s 2021 State of Digital Operations report, over a third of PagerDuty’s users worked on average two extra hours per day, which comes out to an extra 12 weeks of work per year. Respondents also … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Sumo Logic updates, Moogsoft updates, and Bitdefender’s GravityZone Security for Containers
Sumo Logic has announced new capabilities in its observability platform. One new addition is the launch of Sumo Logic Span Analytics, which allows customers to search, analyze, and query data such as traces, logs, and metrics. It also released Sumo Logic Real User Monitoring (RUM) to provide customers with a more complete understanding of the … continue reading
AWS offers new solution to improve failure recovery
Amazon has announced the availability of its Route 53 Application Recovery Controller which monitors an application’s ability to recover from failures. It also controls application recovery across various AWS Zones and Regions and in on-premises environments. According to Amazon, some industries have higher uptime requirements than the standard 99.999% where recovery time objectives (RTO) are … continue reading
Logz.io announces partnership with Microsoft
The open-source observability platform provider Logz.io announced a new strategic partnership with Microsoft Azure to streamline monitoring and observability workflows for cloud developers. Azure users can now deploy the Logz.io platform directly from the Azure Console just with the click of a button. Logz.io’s unique approach to monitoring and observability combines open source tools such … continue reading
Apptio announces integration with ServiceNow to provide better cost insights
Apptio announced that its first certified solution is now available in the ServiceNow Store, which will provide ServiceNow users with a near real-time view into their organization’s actual technology cost structure. The integration will combine operational data from ServiceNow with IT cost modeling software from Apptio to help technology leaders make smarter investment decisions more … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Aqua Security’s new platform, NS1 integrates with Designate, and BloodHound Enterprise
Aqua Security has unveiled its new Aqua Platform. It includes a new unified console, reduces administrative burden, and allows teams to get started with scanning and cloud security posture management (CSPM) capabilities and then allow them to add in more advanced features like sandboxing and workload protection down the road as needed. Other new features … continue reading
Qualcomm Technologies and Foxconn Industrial Internet announce the Gloria AI Edge Box
Today, Qualcomm Technologies announced the release of the Gloria AI Edge Box in collaboration with Foxconn Industrial Internet. BKAV Corporation is the first to utilize this Cutting-Edge-On-Premise Solution. Qualcomm foresees broad adoption of Foxconn Industrial Internet’s Gloria platform using their AI Solution, the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100. They anticipate that the platform will be used … continue reading
Microsoft acquires CloudKnox Security for privileged access capabilities
Microsoft announced that it acquired the cloud Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) provider CloudKnox Security to offer unified privileged access and cloud entitlement management. “The company’s solution helps organizations right-size permissions and consistently enforce least-privilege principles to reduce risk, and it employs continuous analytics to help prevent security breaches and ensure compliance. This strengthens our … continue reading
Three ways to protect Kubernetes data from ransomware
Ransomware attacks were up 150% from 2019 to 2020 with the amount paid by victims increasing by more than 300%. There is no question that ransomware can be devastating to businesses of all sizes – the very recent and very prominent ransomware attack on the Colonial Oil Pipeline underscores the potential for disaster as attackers increasingly target … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: MicroK8s
MicroK8s allows for low-ops, minimal production Kubernetes for devs, cloud, clusters, workstations, edge and IoT. It is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) certified upstream Kubernetes deployment that runs entirely on your workstation or edge device. The project automatically chooses the best nodes for the Kubernetes datastore, and when a cluster database is lost, another … continue reading
