Rafay Systems launched a new capability that provides developers self-service for faster application deployments with the necessary guardrails that enterprises require. With Rafay’s Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP), platform teams establish Kubernetes standards and best practices while freeing developers to rapidly innovate, according to Rafay Systems. According to Rafay, finding the right balance between standardization and … continue reading
The identity-based infrastructure access management provider Teleport announced Teleport 10 which features Passwordless Access, a single sign-on infrastructure access solution that completely eliminates the need for usernames, passwords, private keys, and other secrets. Teleport 10 offers scalable identity-based access while greatly reducing the probability of lost, shared or stolen credentials. Teleport Passwordless Access is based … continue reading
Isovalent, the company that builds open-source cloud-native networking software that solves networking, security, and observability for modern infrastructure, announced the availability of Cilium Service Mesh. Users will be able to run the service mesh completely without sidecars while supporting various control plane options. Cilium Service Mesh complements the existing Istio integration based on sidecars that … continue reading
The Incident Automation company Shoreline.io announced a collection of Op Packs that make it easier to diagnose and repair common infrastructure incidents in production cloud environments called the Shoreline open source solutions library. The more than 35 free Op Packs cover issues such as JVM memory leaks, filling disks, rogue processes, and stuck Kubernetes pods. … continue reading
Antrea is an open source Kubernetes project that provides networking and security capabilities for pod workloads. Key capabilities include the ability to create overlay networks, enforce network policies, and improve network performance. It utilizes both the Container Network Interface (CNI) and Kubernetes NetworkPolicy, and extends the capabilities of networks built on top of Open vSwitch. … 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
This week, Red Hat announced that Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes is now available as an open-source project called StackRox. Red Hat acquired StackRox in February 2021 to strengthen container security. Red Hat had an ongoing relationship with StackRox before the acquisition, specifically around Red Hat OpenShift, the application development and deployment platform … continue reading
Project Calico is a networking and network security solution for containers, virtual machines, and native host-based workloads. The project offers high performance with true cloud-native scalability by providing developers and cluster operators with capabilities across public cloud or on-prem, on a single node, or across a multi-thousand node cluster. It offers a choice of dataplanes … continue reading
Kubernetes platform provider D2iQ has announced the latest release of the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP). The key focus of DKP 2.2 is providing customers with more control and visibility into deployment and management. It now provides VMware vSphere infrastructure provisioning through the Cluster API. This enables customers to deploy and manage their DKP clusters in … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.24 is expected to be released in a few weeks, on May 3rd, and cloud-native security company Sysdig shared information about what to expect in the latest release. According to Sysdig, one main difference in this release is the removal of Dockershim, which the company sees as a “necessary step to ensure the future … continue reading
Cloudprober is a monitoring software that makes it easy to monitor the availability and performance of various components of one’s system. “Cloudprober’s main task is to run probes. A probe executes something, usually against a set of targets, to verify that the systems are working as expected from consumers’ point of view. For example, an … continue reading
The new Red Hat OpenShift 4.10 release is based on Kubernetes 1.23 with the CRI-O 1.23 runtime and offers new enhancements and features for both developers and administrators. Among the 45 enhancements are the ability to change static network configurations after cluster deployment with enhanced networking metrics and debuggability. OpenShift also provides a way to … continue reading