Project Calico is a networking and network security solution for containers, virtual machines, and native host-based workloads. The project offers high performance with true cloud-native scalability by providing developers and cluster operators with capabilities across public cloud or on-prem, on a single node, or across a multi-thousand node cluster. It offers a choice of dataplanes … continue reading
Kubernetes platform provider D2iQ has announced the latest release of the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP). The key focus of DKP 2.2 is providing customers with more control and visibility into deployment and management. It now provides VMware vSphere infrastructure provisioning through the Cluster API. This enables customers to deploy and manage their DKP clusters in … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.24 is expected to be released in a few weeks, on May 3rd, and cloud-native security company Sysdig shared information about what to expect in the latest release. According to Sysdig, one main difference in this release is the removal of Dockershim, which the company sees as a “necessary step to ensure the future … continue reading
Cloudprober is a monitoring software that makes it easy to monitor the availability and performance of various components of one’s system. “Cloudprober’s main task is to run probes. A probe executes something, usually against a set of targets, to verify that the systems are working as expected from consumers’ point of view. For example, an … continue reading
The new Red Hat OpenShift 4.10 release is based on Kubernetes 1.23 with the CRI-O 1.23 runtime and offers new enhancements and features for both developers and administrators. Among the 45 enhancements are the ability to change static network configurations after cluster deployment with enhanced networking metrics and debuggability. OpenShift also provides a way to … continue reading
Karmada is an open-source project that provides orchestration capabilities for Kubernetes. It consists of three main parts: an API server, a controller, and scheduler. The API server offers a REST endpoint for resource templates and policies. Controller creates Kubernetes resource by watching resources in the API server and then communicating with the underlying clusters. And … continue reading
Trousseau is an open-source project based on Kubernetes Key Management Service (KMS) provider design that is designed to be a framework for any KMS provider. This works to provide users with a way to store and access secrets the Kubernetes native way with any externalKMS. Once deployed, Trousseau brings seamless secret management by using native … continue reading
Buoyant, creator of the open-source Linkerd service mesh, has announced the release of automated cluster failover functionality in Linkerd. With this release, application traffic will be automatically redirected to alternate Kubernetes clusters in case of failures or outages in the original cluster. This works to allow applications which were built on Kubernetes to continue to … continue reading
VMware unveiled new container runtime security capabilities to provide end-to-end security for cloud-native applications. The new capabilities aim to target the security challenges of containerized applications including how to allow only legitimate traffic in and how to enable least-privileged communications between services and defend against the lateral movement of attackers, according to the company. “Protecting … continue reading
ValidKube combines open-source tools to help ensure Kubernetes YAML best practices, hygiene and security. The tool can verify your Kubernetes configuration files through kubeval, remove clutter from your Kubernetes manifests through kubectl-neat, and can scan YAML code for security vulnerabilities with trivy. RELATED CONTENT: Abstracting complexity from Kubernetes breaks down barrier to entry Kubeval uses … continue reading
New Relic announced the general availability of a new infrastructure monitoring solution that helps DevOps, SRE and ITOps teams isolate offending infrastructure components and view all related telemetry — including logs, events, and alerts — in context. The new solution aims to tackle the three key issues that surround infrastructure: the complexity of infrastructure, handling … continue reading
Kubernetes is a massive project in the cloud-native space, having grown to 52,000 contributors since its inception, as of a 2020 Cloud Native Computing Foundation report. While interest in Kubernetes continues to grow, one main barrier to its adoption is its complexity. In that same study, complexity was tied with culture changes at 41% as … continue reading