The cloud-based iPaaS company Boomi and event streaming and management provider Solace have collaborated on a new native connector designed to help users create better, data-driven user experiences. The PubSub+ Connector for Boomi will give Boomi AtomSphere platform users access to Solace’s PubSub+ Event Portal, an event management toolset for designing, creating, discovering, cataloging, sharing, … continue reading
Cloud-native and Kubernetes are dominant topics in technology circles these days. But why? What makes such previously obscure concepts and tools suddenly so relevant? Standard practices for software operations until now have been imperative, meaning that instructions are explicit, requiring manual steps and active intervention. Kubernetes and a new generation of cloud-native software have changed … continue reading
Robin.io wants to make it easier for users to adopt hybrid and multi-cloud strategies. The 5G and enterprise app automation platform provider announced the Robin Cloud-Native platform now allows users to move complex stateful apps across clouds. According to the company, hybrid or multi-cloud strategies help support growing infrastructure needs, but with each cloud having … continue reading
Contour, an ingress controller for Kubernetes that provides a control plane for Envoy, was accepted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as an incubation-level hosted project. “One of the most critical needs in running workloads at scale with Kubernetes is efficient and smooth traffic ingress management at the Layer 7 level. Getting an application … continue reading
Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open-source, general-purpose policy engine for cloud-native environments. It is currently an incubating project at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. “The cloud-native ecosystem must provide flexible solutions to control who can do what across modern, microservice deployments because legacy approaches to policy management do not satisfy the requirements of modern … continue reading
The LF AI Foundation has announced ForestFlow is joining as an incubation project. ForestFlow is an open-source, policy-based, cloud-native machine learning model server designed to reduce friction between data science, engineering and operations teams. The project was created to address the challenges organizations have faced when moving machine learning models into production. According to Ahmad … continue reading
Rancher Labs is releasing the latest version of its Kubernetes management platform. Rancher 2.4 features scalability, management and security capabilities required to help Kubernetes scale to the edge. Key features include: Support for 2,000 clusters and 100,000 nodes Limited connectivity maintenance with K3s Zero downtime maintenance for RKE Enhanced security with CIS benchmark scanning In … continue reading
TriggerMesh is a cloud-native integration platform built for the serverless world. The open-source project was designed for integrating cloud-native serverless functions or functions-as-a-service. According to Mark Hinkle, co-founder of TriggerMesh, the solution was inspired by Google’s release of Knative, a Kubernetes-based platform for deploying and managing modern serverless workloads. RELATED CONTENT: TriggerMesh joins Cloud Native … continue reading
Multi-cloud infrastructure automation software provider HashiCorp announced a $175 million series E round of funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $5.1 billion. According to the company, the new funding will help it provide multi-cloud infrastructure automation to organizations around the cloud and expand research and development efforts. In addition, it will expand its field, support … continue reading
TriggerMesh has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and announced that it is formally showing support for Kubernetes and the CNCF Serverless Working Group driving the CloudEvents specification. “CNCF is the home of Kubernetes, one of the most important cloud technologies today,” said Mark Hinkle, the Co-Founder of TriggerMesh. “Joining CNCF plays an important … continue reading
HPE is adding a new company to its portfolio in order to tackle cloud-native security and zero trust networking. Scytale is a service identity management company for the cloud native enterprise. According to HPE, the Scytale team is made up of season engineers with AWS, Duo Security, Google, Okta, PagerDuty and Splunk backgrounds. HPE hopes … continue reading
To address security issues as early in the development and deployment lifecycle as possible, Google implemented a new approach to cloud-native security called BeyondProd. Google released a whitepaper to show how other companies can benefit from BeyondProd as well. Cloud-native security steers away from the traditional perimeter-based security model in which all users or services … continue reading