KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, taking place in London, continues on through its second day, bringing with it a number of new announcements from companies in the cloud-native space.

Here are a couple of highlights from day 2 of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe.

k0s and k0smotron join CNCF Sandbox

Mirantis announced that its open source projects k0s and k0smotron have joined the CNCF Sandbox. 

k0s is a lightweight, zero-dependency Kubernetes distribution, while k0smotron is a Kubernetes cluster management tool. 

“The CNCF is the home for the most innovative cloud-native projects, and joining the Sandbox program underscores our commitment to making Kubernetes more accessible and efficient for developers and operators everywhere,” said Jussi Nummelin, senior principal engineer at Mirantis. “Becoming a CNCF Sandbox project enables us to gather invaluable feedback, foster collaboration, and refine k0s and k0smotron to better serve the cloud-native community. We’re excited to collaborate with the CNCF community and scale k0s’ impact on cloud-native infrastructure.”

New Relic launches eAPM

eAPM is a new eBPF-based capability for getting visibility into Kubernetes workloads. It enables faster troubleshooting of incidents by providing a single place for IT teams to monitor golden metrics, transaction details, and database performance. 

Other benefits include instant setup and discovery of applications and services, elimination of manual configurations or dependencies, and cost saving by removing unnecessary tooling complexity. 

“Our research shows engineers spend 30 percent of their time addressing disruptions,” said Manav Khurana, CPO at New Relic. “At New Relic, we constantly seek every opportunity to increase IT team productivity across all aspects of their jobs. With eAPM, we dramatically simplify the process of Kubernetes performance monitoring. With just a few clicks, IT teams get full insight into all first and third-party applications in Kubernetes in any language, automatically. This translates to valuable time savings and issue resolution.”

Linux Foundation announces availability of Valkey 8.1

Valkey is an open source in-memory data store, and this latest release provides up to 20% increased performance for encryption in transit workloads that use I/O threading and up to 90% reduction in P100 request latency when active memory defragmentation is being used.

Valkey 8.1 also introduces a new command log that provides insights into commands that are consuming a significant amount of network bandwidth.

This release also includes early access to new modules designed to enable customers to tailor data storage capabilities to their own needs. The first three modules that are available to try include a Search Module, JSON Module, and Probabilistic Bloom Filter Module. 

Splunk unveils updates to its OpenTelemetry offering

One of the updates is Service Inventory, which provides end-to-end visibility and detection of third-party applications, offers step-by-step recommendations for OpenTelemetry setup, and highlights missing instrumentation. 

The company also updated its Kubernetes monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities and expanded OpenTelemetry language support for Python 2.0 and Node.js 3.0.

Env0 announces Cloud Analyst

Cloud Analyst is an AI agent that provides insights into large organizations’ entire cloud infrastructure. Users can ask questions about infrastructure state, trends, and key metrics; explore historical data, filter by project or environment, and uncover potential opportunities for optimization; and create interactive dashboards. 

It will be available as part of env0’s platform starting in Q2 of this year, and currently has a waitlist. 

Portworx announces upcoming release of Portworx Enterprise 3.3

Key features of the upcoming release include:

  • RWX Block for KubeVirt VMs running on FlashArray or across storage vendor, enabling better read/write capabilities and high-performance storage
  • A single data management plane that includes synchronized disaster recovery features for VMs running on Kubernetes
  • New integrations with SUSE, Spectro Cloud, and Kubermatic

Anynines adds AWS support to Klutch

Klutch is an open-source database orchestration tool for Kubernetes platforms, and anynines is focusing on improving multi-cloud capabilities. It is adding integrations with AWS, starting with Amazon S3 for storage and Amazon RDS for database management.  

According to the company, this will lay the foundation for future integrations with Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and other cloud infrastructure providers. 

“Our vision for Klutch goes beyond any single cloud provider,” said Julian Fischer, CEO of anynines. “We are building a platform that enables organizations to integrate and manage data services across on-premises infrastructure and multiple public cloud environments.”

Percona adds support for deployment on Red Hat OpenShift

Percona Everest, the company’s open source cloud-native database platform, can now be deployed using Red Hat OpenShift, giving customers more choice over where their database is deployed, whether that be on-premise, public cloud, or hybrid cloud. 

“Companies want to get the best of cloud-native technologies for their developers and IT operations teams. But they don’t want to give up control over their destinies in the future. The combination of Red Hat OpenShift and Percona Everest links our work around open source databases with an open application platform for deployments based on Kubernetes, which delivers up a whole technology stack based on open source,” said Ann Schlemmer, CEO of Percona.

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