It should come as no surprise that Kubernetes has skyrocketed in popularity. Since joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the project has seen widespread adoption and it seems to be all anyone can talk about in the industry. Since it joined the CNCF, the number of companies actively contributing to Kubernetes has grown 2,000 … continue reading
Cloud-native infrastructure solutions provider Fairwinds has announced a new open-source Kubernetes project, Polaris, designed to be a diagnostic tool that provides an overview of current deployments, keeps teams in sync, and ensures the stability, efficiency and security of a cluster. “Keeping cloud-native environments healthy is a challenge. Even the smallest errors in Kubernetes deployment configurations … continue reading
Morpheus Data has updated its cloud management platform with a new unified multi-cloud and container management platform. According to the company, this will help users easily build, manage and utilize Kubernetes clusters, simplify management of hybrid-cloud Kubernetes, and reduce risk and costs. The platform includes the Morpheus Kubernetes Service, ability to access public cloud Kubernetes … continue reading
Carbon Relay is introducing a new open-source project to help DevOps teams manage and improve the performance of Kubernetes-based applications. RELATED CONTENT: AIOps Exchange to lay the groundwork for AIOps’ future According to the company, DevOps teams often struggle with how many valuable infrastructure resources are provisioned for an application in a Kubernetes environment, which … continue reading
Pivotal wants to lower Kubernetes’ learning curve with the alpha release of Pivotal Application Service (PAS). PAS is a modern runtime for Java, .NET and Node apps, powered by Kubernetes. While the solution is built for developers, it is also made to help operation teams improve uptime. RELATED CONTENT: 4 levels of cloud maturity According … continue reading
Platform9 has announced the release of Kubernetes Managed Apps. According to Platform9, this offering extends Platform9’s managed Kubernetes service and SLA guarantee to services and tools including monitoring, logging, and database services. The first set of fully-managed applications that Platform9 will be releasing are Managed Prometheus, Managed EFK, and Managed MySQL. It will continue adding … continue reading
Many organizations are trying to foster a culture of accountability of learning, rather than of blame. This means encouraging people to take accountability for their mistakes and learn from them, while at the same time not making people feel bad for making those mistakes. “The thinking behind assigning blame is that identifying the offender and … continue reading
Canonical has announced full support for Kubernetes 1.15, which was released yesterday, using kubeadm deployments, Charmed Kubernetes, and Microk8s. New features included in Kubernetes 1.15 are quotas for ephemeral storage, extended data sources for persistent volume claims, dynamic persistent volume resizing, and more. “Kubernetes 1.15 includes exciting new enhancements in application, custom resource, storage, and … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.15 is now available with 26 new improvements, 3 stable features, 13 beta features and 10 alpha features. This is the second release of the container orchestration tool in 2019. The main themes of this release included continuous improvement and extensibility. For continuous improvement, the release features improved test coverage, a stable core feature … continue reading
IBM has announced the general release of its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). According to IBM, VPC allows customers to “manage virtual machine-based compute, storage, and networking resources in a private, secure space you define.” VPC provides the logic isolation and security offered by private clouds, while also providing the availability, cost-effectiveness, and scalability of the … continue reading
The popular container orchestration tool Kubernetes is celebrating its fifth birthday today. It was first introduced by Google in June 2014, and it didn’t take long for others to see the potential of the tool. By August 2014, major companies such as Microsoft, Red Hat, IBM, Docker, and CoreOS had joined the Kubernetes community. “Kubernetes … continue reading
The latest version of the Kubernetes service mesh Linkerd is now available. Version 2.3.1 features proxy stability improvements. A few of the improvements include changes to the proxy’s routing behavior, a new dispatch time limit to limit the amount of time that a request can be buffered, and various bug fixes. Full release notes are … continue reading