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
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Eclipse Kapua
Eclipse Kapua is a modular platform designed to integrate IoT devices and smart sensors, facilitating the convergence of Operation Technology (OT) and IT. Its architecture supports multi-protocol device connectivity through a message broker, initially adopting MQTT but also supporting AMQP and WebSockets. This connectivity framework includes authentication, authorization, and a Device Registry for organizing and … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: EMCO
EMCO, which stands for Edge Multi-Cluster Orchestrator, is a control plane and application orchestrator for Kubernetes, enabling organizations to connect and deploy their workloads across public cloud, private clouds, and the edge, while still maintaining communication with and among applications. It intelligently assigns workloads into clusters, and interacts with the Kubernetes API server to hand … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Clusternet
Clusternet is a tool for managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across different environments. The goal of the project is to make management as easy as “visiting the Internet.” The interface lets you manage or visit clusters from a single place as if they were running locally. According to the project maintainers, this helps eliminate the need … continue reading
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Spiderfoot
SpiderFoot is an open-source tool designed to automate OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) for threat intelligence and mapping attack surfaces. The project enables the exploration of a target using a wide range of data sources, thus aiding in cybersecurity, infosec, and threat intelligence. SpiderFoot can be used for various purposes, including reconnaissance, information gathering, and security … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Litmus
This week’s highlighted open-source project is Litmus, which is a platform for conducting chaos engineering tests, which identify weaknesses in infrastructure so that they can be addressed before they become real issues. The project is made up of a control plane called chaos-center, which allows you to construct, schedule, and visualize chaos workflows, and an … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Capsule
Capsule is an open-source framework for implementing multi-tenant and policy-based environments in Kubernetes clusters. It was created to solve the challenge of cluster sprawl, which is when the number of clusters in an organization grows to a number that is difficult to manage. Normally, one could use the Namespace object to create partitions of a … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Zulip
Zulip is an open-source team chat alternative to tools like Slack or Teams. In Zulip, conversations are organized into streams (think channels in Slack) and streams contain topics, which hold conversations around a specific idea. For example, a team organizing a conference may have a stream called “annual summit,” which is divided into topics like … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Karmada
Karmada is a Kubernetes management system that enables users to run their cloud-native applications across multiple Kubernetes clusters and clouds, with no changes to their applications. By using Kubernetes-native APIs and providing advanced scheduling capabilities, Karmada enables open, multi-cloud Kubernetes. Karmada seeks to offer seamless automation for managing applications across multiple clusters in diverse cloud … continue reading
