ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: CFEngine
CFEngine is a configuration management system that can be used to automate and ensure availability, security, and compliance of applications and services. Key features include the ability to define configuration of an IT system, system maintenance, checking of system states, compliance, and real-time modifications or updates to the system. Machines with CFEngine installed will run … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: AWS’s security group rule IDs, Backblaze Computer Backup v8.0, and Rapid7’s InsightCloudSec
AWS has announced security group rule IDs, which are unique identifiers for security group rules. This simplifies CLI commands and allows security group rules to be tagged like other AWS resources. According to AWS, tags can be used to quickly identify a set of rules across multiple security groups. This new capability is now available … continue reading
FIDO Alliance creates new UX guidelines for passwordless authentication
Data breaches and cyberattacks are often the result of weak or stolen passwords. Developing an authentication system that doesn’t involve passwords will be the key to more secure systems. One organization trying to eliminate the need for passwords in favor of biometric logins in order to make ransomware attacks and widespread hacking more difficult is … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Google Cloud’s predictive autoscaling, New Relic One + Azure Spring Cloud, and Taoglas acquires Smartsensor Technologies
Google Cloud has announced predictive autoscaling to automatically anticipate future infrastructure capacity needs. The new capability will create VMs when it predicts upcoming demand and provides enough time for applications to initialize in them. It makes these predictions based on an instance group’s CPU history. It also adjusts forecasts based on recurring load patterns. Customers … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Eclipse Fog05
Eclipse fog05 provides a virtualized infrastructure that allows for distributed computing, storage, control and networking functions closer to users along a cloud-to-thing continuum. Fog05 offers a set of abstractions to unify the compute, storage and communication fabric from end to end that enables this. It provides the same abstraction of an elastic compute but in … continue reading
Report: IT jobs expected to get harder in hybrid work model
Many people are excited about the new era of hybrid work, but a number of IT professionals have their concerns. While remote work has its benefits, workload complexity isn’t one of them; only 32% of IT professionals believe their jobs will get easier in a hybrid model. This is according to PagerDuty’s recently released The … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Verizon partners with IBM and Red Hat, HPE acquires Zerto, and Alluxio 2.6
Verizon has announced a new partnership with IBM and Red Hat. Together the companies will help Verizon deploy its 5G network on an open hybrid cloud platform. Verizon will be able to leverage the benefits of the open-source community while still retaining architectural control to speed the release of new features and offerings. “We all … continue reading
Weave GitOps aims to accelerate GitOps adoption
Weaveworks is trying to make it easier for companies to adopt GitOps. It launched Weave GitOps, which is an application delivery and operations platform for multi-cloud environments. GitOps is a concept originating from Weaveworks in which Git is used as the single source of truth for Kubernetes environments. Since its creation, companies like AWS, Codefresh, … continue reading
Google joins O-RAN ALLIANCE
Google announced that it joined the O-RAN ALLIANCE, a worldwide community of mobile network operators, vendors, and research and academic institutions operating in the Radio Access Network (RAN) industry to help transform the telecommunications industry. RAN reduces the cost of ownership, scale, and overall complexity when it comes to mobile networks. The alliance works to … continue reading
Report: 85% of companies have yet to achieve full Kubernetes and cloud native adoption
Although companies have been adopting cloud native technologies at higher rates than ever before, 85% of companies have yet to fully cross the chasm to adoption when it comes to Kubernetes and cloud native. However, they are quickly moving in that direction. Nearly 78% of companies in Canonical’s Kubernetes and Cloud Native Operations Report had … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: HPE announces new 5G management capabilities, IBM announces new 5G automation software, and Dell’s HPC innovations
HPE has announced new capabilities for 5G management. The new solution brings together a new 5G capability in HPE Service Director with HPE 5G Automated Assurance. Together these capabilities provide a closed-loop system for managing 5G networks that reduces deployment risks. “To fully seize the opportunity presented by 5G and network slicing, network operators need … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cluster API
Cluster API is a Kubernetes sub-project focused on providing declarative APIs and tooling to simplify provisioning, upgrading, and operating multiple Kubernetes clusters. The project was started by the Kubernetes Special Interest Group (SIG) Cluster Lifecycle to automate cluster lifecycle management for platform operators. At first, the SIG working group started kubeadm to address a set … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Google Cloud’s Grafana plugin, NS1’s traffic automation platform, and Quantum and Supermicro collaboration
Google Cloud has announced updates to its Cloud Monitoring plugin for Grafana. It has added sample dashboards for Google Cloud services, a deeper link between Grafana and Google Cloud Monitoring, an improved query interface, and a new Monitoring Query Language (MQL) interface. “The observability of metrics is a key factor for a successful operations team, … continue reading
NVIDIA partners with Equinix on AI LaunchPad
NVIDIA is trying to make it easier for companies to access NVIDIA-powered infrastructure to run their AI workloads on with the release of the NVIDIA AI LaunchPad. The NVIDIA AI LaunchPad will be delivered in collaboration with various cloud providers, the first of which will be Equinix. Equinix customers will now be able to develop … continue reading
