Crossplane is an open-source project that provides infrastructure as code (IaC) for managing cloud native applications and infrastructure. It is designed to enable users to declaratively manage their cloud resources using a single, unified interface, rather than needing to use the individual APIs and tooling provided by different cloud providers. Crossplane aims to provide a … continue reading
The team at Aiven, the open-source cloud data platform, has announced a complete open-source streaming ecosystem for Apache Kafka. This is intended to deliver a robust and real-time data ecosystem with the latest editions of its beta service of Aiven for Apache Flink. “As a leader in the open source community, Aiven is on a … continue reading
The Linux Foundation in Europe announced the formation of Project Sylva, a common cloud software framework and adjacent Reference Implementation to reduce fragmentation of the cloud infrastructure layer for telecommunication and edge services. The intention for the project is to create a new, open-source, production-grade Telco Cloud Stack to reduce the complexity and accelerate cloudification … continue reading
Nushell is an open-source project that aims to bring a rich programming language and a full-featured shell into one package. The project is inspired by Plan 9’s rc shell and aims to provide a more modern shell experience. It also takes design cues from traditional shells like bash, PowerShell, gradually typed languages like TypeScript, functional … continue reading
Komodor launched the open-source project Helm Dashboard which provides the missing GUI for Helm. The open-source project runs locally and opens in the browser so that developers can visualize which Helm deployments failed and where the root cause was. Developers can explore how a Helm Chart changed over time, rollback to a prior version, or … continue reading
Tetrate, the creator of Tetrate Service Bridge (TSB) to help with service mesh adoption, announced that it developed a new official training course for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The new course teaches how to monitor, connect, and secure microservices using Istio and is designed for anyone who wants to build on their knowledge … continue reading
Cert-manager, an open-source Kubernetes add-on that can automate the management and issuance of TLS certificates from various issuing sources, has become a CNCF incubating project. The project can ensure that certificates are up-to-date and can renew certificates before expiration to run highly secure, encrypted data communications using TLS. “cert-manager is probably one of the first … continue reading
Wazuh is an open-source security platform for threat prevention, detection, and response that can protect workloads across on-premises, virtualized, containerized, and cloud-based environments. It consists of an endpoint security agent deployed to the monitoring systems and a management server which collects and analyzes data gathered by those agents. It is fully integrated with Elastic Stack, … continue reading
Spiffe and Spire is an open-source universal identity control plane for distributed systems. It allows users to secure microservices communication automatically with Envoy, X.509, or JWT. Spiffe is a Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone which works to offer a secure identity to every workload in a modern production environment. It also removes the need … continue reading
Clusterpedia is an encyclopedia of Kubernetes clusters that can help users synchronize, search for, and control multi-cluster resources. The inspiration behind its name is Wikipedia, according to the developers behind the project on GitHub. It is a CNCF sandbox project that includes support for complex searches, filters, sorting, paging, and more. Clusterpedia also offers support … continue reading
Service Mesh Interface (SMI) provides a standard interface for service meshes on Kubernetes, a basic feature set for common service mesh use cases, and the flexibility to support new service mesh capabilities over time. The specification defines a common standard that can be implemented by various providers and it follows the CNCF code of conduct. … continue reading
Waltz is an open-source project that lets users visualize and define their organization’s technology landscape developed by Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank released the project in early 2018 to help users make smarter decisions on technology investment. “A core belief behind Waltz is that technology information should be accessible by everyone within your organisation. Furthermore employees … continue reading