ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Vineyard
Vineyard is an in-memory data manager designed specifically for data-heavy analytics. It uses shared memory to efficiently share data across different systems without needing to do serialization and deserialization. It employs a zero-copy method for sharing, which helps to avoid I/O overhead costs. According to the project maintainers, Vineyard is ideal for complex cloud-native environments, … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Kube-OVN
Kube-OVN is an open-source project attempting to bring the benefits of SDN to the cloud-native era. “If you miss the rich networking capabilities of the SDN age but are struggling to find them in the cloud-native age, Kube-OVN should be your best choice,” the project maintainers say. It has a number of key features, including … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Eraser
Eraser is an open source tool for cleaning up unused Kubernetes images in a cluster. “When deploying to Kubernetes, it’s common for pipelines to build and push images to a cluster, but it’s much less common for these images to be cleaned up. This can lead to accumulating bloat on the disk, and a host … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cloud Console Cartographer
Cloud Console Cartographer is an open-source project that allows IT teams to more easily read and understand cloud logs from AWS. “If you’ve spent any amount of time digging through logs trying to triage activity in an environment, you’ve probably been overwhelmed with the log data that comes from console activity,” explained Daniel Bohannon, principal … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Copa
Copa, short for Copacetic, is an open-source project for vulnerability management. It can automatically apply the necessary patches to a container image based on the results of vulnerability scans. This allows containers to be patched quickly without waiting on a full rebuild upstream, so that they can be redeployed as fast as possible. The maintainers … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cloud Foundry BOSH
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open-source solution for provisioning and deploying software to virtual machines (VMs). It also includes capabilities for monitoring, failure recovery, and software updating. The tool was initially designed to deploy to Cloud Foundry PaaS, but it can also be deployed to almost any other software as well, the maintainers claim. It … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Xline
Xline is an open-source management system for metadata stored in organizations with multiple data centers. According to the project maintainers, one of the big challenges related to multi-data center architectures is maintaining data consistency and high performance. Xline was created to help solve that problem by allowing distributed storage and management. “This project aims to … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Kong Gateway Operator
Earlier this week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024, Kong announced it would be open sourcing the Kong Gateway Operator (KGO) with the latest release, 1.2. With this release, all the previously released features of KGO are now open source, and new features were also added, such as managed gateways, HPA-based gateway autoscaling, and AI … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Nautobot
Nautobot serves as both a Network Source of Truth and a Network Automation Platform, built on the Django Python framework and supporting PostgreSQL or MySQL databases. It aims to establish a flexible and definitive source for networking information, utilizing core data models to represent the intended state of network infrastructure. These models cover a variety … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Falco
Falco is a security solution specifically designed for cloud-native environments on Linux systems. It operates by applying custom rules to kernel events, enhancing these with detailed metadata from containers and Kubernetes. This approach enables Falco to deliver real-time alerts, ensuring users can quickly detect and respond to unusual activity, security threats, and breaches of compliance. … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Pingora
Cloudflare announced that it is open-sourcing Pingora, a Rust framework used to build services that power a significant portion of the traffic on Cloudflare. Pingora is released under the Apache License version 2.0. Pingora is an advanced Rust-based async multithreaded framework designed to facilitate the development of HTTP proxy services. Highlighting its robustness and efficiency, … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Art of Command Line
The Art of Command Line is a repository of information designed to help users — beginners and advanced alike — learn how to use and improve their skills with the command line in Linux. “This is a selection of notes and tips on using the command-line that we’ve found useful when working on Linux. Some … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Traefik Proxy
Traefik Proxy is a reverse proxy and load balancer used for deploying microservices, built with simplicity in mind. “Traefik is designed to be as simple as possible to operate, but capable of handling large, highly-complex deployments across a wide range of environments and protocols in public, private, and hybrid clouds,” the website states. As of … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Strimzi
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Strimzi as a CNCF incubating project. Strimzi simplifies the deployment and management of Apache Kafka clusters on Kubernetes, leveraging the operator pattern to ease installation, upgrades, and security tasks. Apache Kafka, known for its scalability and fault tolerance, is widely used for building event-driven architectures … continue reading
