Topic: kubernetes
PerfectScale announces carbon emission visibility for AWS, Azure, and GCP Kubernetes
PerfectScale has introduced new capabilities enabling users to visualize, monitor, and mitigate the carbon footprint of Kubernetes clusters operating in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Through the platform’s handling of cloud resources, enterprises can effectively reduce costs and improve the environmental sustainability of their applications, according to the company. The widespread adoption of Kubernetes … continue reading
KubeCon: GKE Enterprise gets release date, Mezmo adds data profiling feature, and more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America just kicked off this morning in Chicago, IL. Like always, the event results in a number of different Kubernetes vendors making announcements about updates to their offerings. Here are a few highlights: GKE Enterprise will be available November 15 GKE Enterprise is the premium version of Google Cloud’s Kubernetes service. … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Tetragon
Tetragon is a security tool for Kubernetes that uses eBPF to apply policies and filters, reducing observation overhead, enabling process tracking, and enforcing policies in real-time. Developed by the creators of Cilium and eBPF, Tetragon offers real-time security observability and enforcement using eBPF. It can detect and respond to important security events, including process execution, … continue reading
Grafana launches new infrastructure and cost-monitoring capabilities
Grafana Labs has introduced new capabilities for its observability platform Grafana Cloud to help Kubernetes platform teams lower cloud costs and improve unified monitoring for their cloud-native infrastructure. “Kubernetes leveled up platform engineering and redefined how global distributed teams could access shared infrastructure – but teams have to use multiple different platforms to cover the … continue reading
Honeycomb for Kubernetes offers new observability features
Honeycomb launched “Honeycomb for Kubernetes” to help engineers using Kubernetes identify and solve application issues by helping them understand the relationships between production code and the infrastructure layer. The move is prompted by the CNCF’s 2022 Annual Survey, which shows the growing adoption of Kubernetes but highlights a gap in correlating application and infrastructure data, … 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
PerfectScale announces $7.1 million in seed funding
PerfectScale, a provider of Kubernetes optimization capabilities, has secured $7.1 million in seed funding, led by Blumberg Capital with participation from previous investor UpWest, Prelude Ventures, and additional investors K2 Access Fund, Inner Loop Capital, Triangle Tweener Fund, and Firestreak Ventures. This funding brings the company’s total investment to nearly $10 million since its establishment … continue reading
WSO2 API Platform for Kubernetes launched to speed up the delivery of cloud native apps
WSO2 has introduced a solution called WSO2 API Platform for Kubernetes (WSO2 APK) to address the challenges associated with manually configuring traditional API management solutions within Kubernetes. WSO2 APK is a comprehensive API management solution purposefully designed to harness Kubernetes’ inherent strengths. It adheres to the Kubernetes Gateway API specification and seamlessly integrates with Kubernetes … continue reading
Mezmo launches Welcome Pipeline to unlock Kubernetes insights faster
Kubernetes has become a staple in orchestrating containerized applications. However, despite its utility, Kubernetes-deployed applications and infrastructure generate a ton of data, according to Mezmo in a blog post. While this data can reveal important key performance indicators (KPIs) like system performance, latency, and user behavior metrics, getting those insights is often tricky due to … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Artifact Hub
Artifact Hub is a web application designed for locating, installing, and sharing packages and configurations related to CNCF projects. It addresses the challenge of discovering compatible artifacts for CNCF projects. It’s an open-source project licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Instead of each project creating its own artifact hub, which results in duplication and confusion … continue reading
Linkerd 2.14 launched with improved support for multi-cluster deployments on shared flat networks and full Gateway API conformance
Linkerd 2.14 introduces enhanced multi-cluster support for networks where clusters share a flat architecture. This enables pods from different clusters to directly establish TCP connections. This update introduces a “gateway-less” mode for cross-cluster communication, improving performance by reducing latency, enhancing security by maintaining workload identity in mTLS calls between clusters, and lowering cloud costs by … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.28 is now available
The Kubernetes release team has officially announced the launch of the next version of the technology, Kubernetes 1.28. Kubernetes 1.28 includes 45 enhancements, 12 of which are stable, 14 that are in beta, and 19 that are in alpha. One of the new generally available features is the ability to recover after an unexpected node … continue reading
