Topic: kubernetes
Kubernetes 1.18 now available
The first Kubernetes release of the year is here, and according to the team, is a “fit and finish” release, meaning that a lot of effort was made in improving stable and beta features. Kubernetes 1.18 includes 15 stable enhancements, 11 beta enhancements, and 12 alpha enhancements. “Having almost as many enhancements in alpha, beta, … continue reading
Platform9 announces new SaaS-managed plans for Kubernetes deployment
Platform9 announced new ‘Freedom’ and ‘Growth’ SaaS-managed Kubernetes plans. The new plans enable Kubernetes users and DevOps teams to deploy upstream Kubernetes on any infrastructure of their choice without vendor lock-in or the burden of operational complexity in production. Platform9’s Freedom and Growth plans are aimed at DevOps, ITOps, Platform Engineering, and cloud architects who … continue reading
Elastic releases ECK 1.0 to simplify day 2 Kubernetes operations
Elastic has announced that its Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) is moving out of beta. It was first announced in May 2019, with the goal of providing an official way for orchestrating Elasticsearch on Kubernetes and providing a SaaS-like experience for Elastic products on Kubernetes. Other steps Elastic has taken to respond to the massive … continue reading
vSphere 7 brings essential services for the modern hybrid cloud
VMware launched vSphere 7 to provide essential services for the modern hybrid cloud. It is the biggest release of vSphere in over a decade, according to VMware. It delivers the rearchitecting of vSphere with native Kubernetes that the company introduced at VMworld 2019 as Project Pacific. “Using vSphere 7 and VMware Cloud Foundation, you can … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Google adds cluster management fee to GKE, Hailo raises $60 for deep learning chip, and Mission and Cloudwick team up on managed data and analytics
Google Kubernetes Engine clusters will start accruing a cluster management fee starting June 6. The fee will include $0.10 per cluster per hour. According to the company, one zonal cluster per filling account is free and GKE fees will not apply to Anthos GKE clusters. The company is also introducing a service level agreement backed … continue reading
TriggerMesh joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation
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
Kublr 1.16 released with rolling upgrade support
The latest release of the Kubernetes multi-cloud, multi-cloud platform is now available. Kublr 1.16 comes with support for rolling upgrades with zero downtime across clouds and on-premise infrastructures. “You probably don’t need to be sold on rolling updates, the benefits are obvious. Whether you want to ensure your infrastructure, applications, or production component are upgraded … continue reading
ITOps news digest: Falkonry’s operational AI products, CloudBolt 9.2, and Huawei’s new 5G products
Predictive operations company Falkonry has announced two new AI product offerings designed to scale with lower total cost of ownership and short time to value. The products include Falkonry Workbench and Analyzer. Workbench analyzes large amounts of data to build predictive models and solve production problems. Other features include ability to perform forensic analysis on … continue reading
Report: Container and Kubernetes security concerns are inhibiting business innovation
The latest edition of the State of Container and Kubernetes Security Report finds that 44% of respondents have delayed deploying cloud-native applications because of security concerns, delaying the deployment of cloud-native applications into production. StackRox surveyed more than 540 IT professionals for this third version of its industry-first report. Roughly 25 percent of respondents serve … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: KubeEdge
KubeEdge brings container orchestration and device management to the edge. Built on Kubernetes, it provides infrastructure support for networking, deployment, and synchronization between the cloud and edge. The project has a number advantages, according to the team. For one, the edge allows large volumes of data to be secured and processed locally. “With business logic … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Gravity
Gravity is an open-source upstream Kubernetes packaging solution designed to take “the drama out of on-prem deployments.” The project was created by the cloud-native security company Gravitational and open sourced in 2018. According to the company, the project enables users to create images of Kubernetes clusters, including applications and dependencies, and then package it into … continue reading
Canonical: Don’t try to reinvent Kubernetes
The open-source container orchestration project Kubernetes has seen significant growth since it was first released in 2015. Just in the last year, more specialized use cases have come out for the project, but Stephan Fabel, director of product at Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, warns users about taking Kubernetes too far in … continue reading
