Topic: kubernetes
Enterprise container strategy: It’s time to jump on board
Containers are here to stay. The question is when will they become more widely used than virtual machines? Containers are software designed to package an application and its dependencies (libraries, binaries, and configuration files) together so it can run quickly and reliably when a developer moves the application from one computing environment to another. They also … continue reading
Ubuntu 19.10 released with Kubernetes at the edge and multi-cloud infrastructure
The latest version of the open-source Linux distribution Ubuntu is now available. Version 19.10 comes with a strong focus on Kubernetes and the edge. Canonical has added strict confinement to MicroK8s — is zero-ops Kubernetes solution. According to the company, this will provide enhanced edge computing capabilities and ensure isolation and secure Kubernetes environments. Users … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Goldilocks
Cloud-native infrastructure solutions provider Fairwinds announced a new open-source tool for Kubernetes resource management this week. Goldilocks is designed to give users recommendations on how to best set their resource requests. “Today, Kubernetes users have no easy way to determine the resource requests and limits for their workload and often don’t set them at all. … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Microsoft open sources the Open Application Model, CockroachDB gets Red Hat Container Certification, and Pensando emerges from stealth
Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud have announced the Open Application Model (OAM), a new open-source project under the Open Web Foundation. OAM is meant to provide an open standard for developers building and operating apps on Kubernetes. “OAM is a specification for describing applications so that the application description is separated from the details of how … continue reading
Red Hat OpenShift 4.2 released
Red Hat announced the latest version of its enterprise Kubernetes platform, Red Hat OpenShift 4.2. The new version is designed to provide new client tools and local development capabilities, and includes the company’s service mesh, serverless and pipeline solutions. “More and more organizations across industries and around the world trust Red Hat OpenShift to run … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Elastic Endpoint Security, ManageEngine’s PAM360, and Radware Kubernetes Web Application Firewall
Elastic has released a new SIEM and endpoint security solution: Elastic Endpoint Security. The new solution is based on the company’s recent acquisition of Endgame, an endpoint threat prevention, detection and response provider. The solution will feature raw endpoint security data, event data, and alerts, in addition to the Elastic Stack’s existing logging, security, APM … continue reading
Rancher 2.3 released with Microsoft Windows container support
Rancher Labs has announced the latest release of its Kubernetes management platform. Rancher 2.3 features support for Windows containers, integration with the Istio service mesh, and new cluster templates. According to the company, 70% of on-premise workloads are running on Windows Server operating systems, and support for Windows containers has been a highly wanted feature … continue reading
IT Ops Times news digest: Splunk closes acquisition of SignalFx, StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform, and OutSystems’ new capabilities
Splunk has announced the acquisition of the cloud monitoring provider SignalFx is now completed. The company first announced plans to acquire SignalFx in August. The price of the transaction was approximately $1.05 billion. “We live in a cloud-first world, where developers must have the ability to monitor and observe cloud-native infrastructure and applications in real-time, … continue reading
Automation, the key to digital transformation
Nowadays customers have high expectations of (online) services and what a business can (or should) deliver. To meet up to those high expectations, businesses need to transform the way they work and think and even their organizational culture. This involves major changes in day-to-day operations. As a result of these changes, customer value will increase. … continue reading
What We Learned: 7 Field-Tested Best Practices for Kubernetes
Our Kubernetes journey at Algolia began with one question: How can our development team deploy new services with more flexibility? Two years ago, we were a big user of bare metal machines. This changed when we assessed Kubernetes for automating hardware allocation and workloads and services life cycle management. Today, most of our products are … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.16 now available
The latest release of the container orchestration platform Kubernetes is now available. Kubernetes 1.16 is the third release of the project this year, and it includes 31 enhancements. According to the Kubernetes release team, the main themes of this release are custom resources, overhauled metrics, and volume extension. The team has made custom resource definitions … continue reading
Sumo Logic’s latest innovations help users visualize data, gain insights into Kubernetes
Sumo Logic wants to help companies stay competitive with the announcement of its new capabilities. Today, the company revealed new features such as dashboard visualization, data enrichment for log, and metric transformation rules. The dashboard visualization feature will give users rich analytics of their metrics and log data. Users will also be able to get … continue reading
