Topic: cloud native
SUSE updates Linux servers, cloud native and edge technologies
As organizations continue to transform themselves with generative AI, cloud native and edge technologies, SUSE today announced new enhancements and innovations to its offerings. Among them are the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 Service Pack 6, which the company said future-proofs IT workloads with a new Long Term Service Pack Support Core that … 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
Falco graduates from CNCF
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced the graduation of Falco. Falco is a cloud-native security tool for Linux systems and has become a commonly used engine for detecting threats within Kubernetes environments. This milestone marks a significant achievement for Falco, emphasizing its importance and effectiveness in cloud-native security, according to the CNCF. “Real time … continue reading
Kubecost 2.0 launched with Kubernetes network monitoring, cost center reporting, and more
The Kubecost 2.0 update brings new tools and features aimed at simplifying and improving the management of Kubernetes-related cloud costs, especially for large enterprises and in complex, multi-cloud settings. Kubecost is a cloud-agnostic tool for Kubernetes cost monitoring and visibility. According to a CNCF Cloud Native FinOps + Cloud Financial Management Microsurvey, issues like overprovisioning, … continue reading
Cisco to acquire Isovalent
Cisco announced the intent to acquire Isovalent, which provides open-source software and enterprise solutions solving networking, security, and observability needs for modern cloud native infrastructure. Isolavent created Cilium, an eBPF-based networking tool, and contributed it to the CNCF. Through that contribution and collaborations with the community, Isovalent has advanced the project to the status of … continue reading
KubeCon Day 2: NGINX Gateway Fabric Version 1.0, Chronosphere Lens, and more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America began yesterday in Chicago, IL. Like always, the event results in a number of different Kubernetes vendors making announcements about updates to their offerings. Yesterday resulted in a number of announcements, which you can read about here, and here are a few highlights of what was announced today: NGINX Gateway … continue reading
Kubernetes is killing the cloud
Let’s cut right to the chase: While Kubernetes is great for quickly deploying containers at cloud-scale, I think most people who use Kubernetes are missing out on the real value of the cloud, which is offloading responsibilities on parts of your application to managed cloud services. Kubernetes users quickly become “containerized” and have a hard … continue reading
Drowning in Cloud Native Infrastructure Data
I’m not sure I felt it at the time, but before I had kids I had life figured out. I could do what I wanted, when I wanted and I could generally stay on top of life. Finances were easy (comparatively), and my schedule was my own to determine once I’d finished work. Checking in … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: OpenKruise
OpenKruise is an extended component for Kubernetes that was built with a focus on application automation like deployment, upgrade, ops, and availability protection. The project became a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Incubating Project last month which means that the project is considered stable and used successfully in production. The majority of features offered by … continue reading
Dell announces new solutions to help advance adoption of open telecom network architecture
Dell announced a few advancements to accelerate the adoption of open, cloud-native technologies with new solutions and partnerships. Among the announcements, Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks expanded to support Red Hat technologies to help network operators meet the demands of 5G core and radio access network (RAN) workloads. The two companies designed a fully engineered, cloud-native … continue reading
CNCF Annual Survey reveals containers have become standard practice
44% of organizations stated that they are already using containers for almost all of their applications and business segments while another 35% reported that containers are used for at least a few production applications. This is according to the CNCF Annual Survey 2022, conducted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Linux Research Foundation. … continue reading
Report: Container image vulnerabilities are plenty, but there is room to focus efforts
The need for more mature security practices when using cloud-native technology is clear with 87% of container images having high or critical vulnerabilities, up from 75% last year. Most of them at 71% of those vulnerabilities have a fix available that has not been applied. This data comes from the new 2023 Cloud-Native Security & … continue reading
