Octopus Deploy this week announced the strengthening of its Kubernetes deployment capabilities to simplify deployments at scale without having to revisit how organizations progress from development to test to production. “The current buzz around the Kubernetes community is, it seems, like we’re trying to refigure out how to do dev to test to production deployments,” … continue reading
Flux v2.0.0 brings several enhancements to its functionality. Firstly, the GitOps-related APIs have been upgraded to v1. Also, Flux controllers now have the ability to scale horizontally and support sharding. The Flux CLI and Flux Terraform Provider now offer stable and production-ready Git bootstrap capabilities, streamlining the process of setting up Git repositories for Flux … continue reading
Cerbos is a scalable, open-source authorization layer for implementing roles and permissions that was created in early 2021. With the project, users have the ability to separate and manage authorization logic in a central location for all their applications and services. By doing so, they can eliminate redundant efforts, have better visibility, and apply changes … continue reading
Kubernetes is a relatively new technology, and there is a limited pool of engineers capable of configuring and managing a deployment. A large percentage of Kubernetes deployments fail because organizations underestimate the complexity of Kubernetes and overestimate their ability to implement and manage a Kubernetes environment – a recent study showed that 100% of companies surveyed … continue reading
Weaveworks announced a new GitOps extension on Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes to govern and control hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The companies created the integration with a joint goal of providing a robust, secure and user-friendly solution to enable the running of Kubernetes clusters everywhere, from other public clouds to private … continue reading
Weaveworks is trying to make it easier for companies to adopt GitOps. It launched Weave GitOps, which is an application delivery and operations platform for multi-cloud environments. GitOps is a concept originating from Weaveworks in which Git is used as the single source of truth for Kubernetes environments. Since its creation, companies like AWS, Codefresh, … continue reading
Terrascan is an open-source static code analyzer for building secure Infrastructure as Code (IaC). The project was launched by the immutable security company Accurics last year. It includes templates to help avoid common security pitfalls in the cloud, built-in extensibility to support other technologies, and leverages the Open Policy Agent to help users write custom … continue reading
Flux is an open-source GitOps project designed to keep Kubernetes clusters in sync with configuration systems as well as automate any new changes to the configuration. It has been with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project since August 2019, and just this week it was voted to move to an incubating … continue reading
Kubernetes has matured to the point where users need to not only consider how to get Kubernetes clusters spun up and deployed, but how to maintain and scale them for the long term. Kubernetes was the first project to graduate from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), and according to its Project Journey Report, which … continue reading
A new open-source GitOps continuous delivery project was announced at this week’s KubeCon in San Diego. Argo Flux was built in collaboration with Intuit, AWS and Weave Works. The project builds off of the GitOps CD tool for Kubernetes Argo CD, and the CNCF’s sandbox project Flux, a GitOps operator for Kubernetes. The goal of … continue reading