Topic: kubernetes
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
ITOps Times news digest: SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor, Dynatrace extends Kubernetes support and Incorta 4.6
SolarWinds is adding the Database Performance Monitor solution to its IT operations management portfolio to give users the ability to manage on-premise, hybrid, and cloud-native databases. The new addition features before-and-after analysis, and root cause granularity for open-source and NoSQL databases. “As open-source and NoSQL databases grow in popularity and a new generation of applications … continue reading
Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4 to deliver a multi-cloud experience
Red Hat announced the release of Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4 to deliver an integrated, multi-cloud experience to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform users. According to the company, Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4 offers greater abstraction and flexibility so that customers can have the freedom to choose data services across multiple public clouds, … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.17 is now available
The newly released Kubernetes 1.17 includes enhancements such as the general availability of cloud provider labels and the betas for Kubernetes Volume Snapshot and the Kubernetes in-tree storage plugin to Container Storage Interface (CSI) migration infrastructure. The team behind the new release explained that when nodes and volumes are created, a set of standard labels … continue reading
Problems and solutions of monitoring your Kubernetes Operators
For me, the most important thing monitoring can provide is the ability to see what is happening inside your clusters–be it the state of the workload, or the status of the applications–is significant and should not be a day two concern. Good information on your clusters allows you to react quickly to misconfigured deployed applications, … continue reading
KubeCon: State of the Kubernetes Union
Accountability and transparency are crucial to open-source projects. On Thursday at KubeCon, six of the seven Kubernetes Steering Committee members held an open discussion with constituents to discuss goals, challenges, and other pressing issues in Kubernetes. Members present included Davanum Srinivas, Timothy St. Clair, Paris Pittman, Derek Carr, Christoph Blecker, and Nikhite Raghunath. Aaron Crickenberger … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Argo Flux
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
KubeCon: Securing Kubernetes with STRIDE
When you’re architecting your infrastructure around Kubernetes, you need to make sure you’re securing it properly. In a talk at this week’s KubeCon in San Diego, Pushkar Joglekar, security engineer at Visa, explained some of the best practices for securing Kubernetes. At Visa, the payment workflow boils down to: “Do it fast and with a … continue reading
