Topic: open source
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Zabbix
Zabbix is an enterprise-class, open-source distributed monitoring solution released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. With it, users can get a single pane of glass view of their whole IT infrastructure stack including network, server, cloud, application, and service monitoring. Zabbix is scalable to any infrastructure whether on-premise or in the cloud. … continue reading
Shoreline.io announces open source solutions library to deliver self-healing infrastructure
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
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: kube-monkey
Kube-monkey is an implementation of Netflix’s Chaos Monkey specifically for Kubernetes clusters. It works by randomly removing Kubernetes (k8s) pods in the cluster, encouraging and validating the development of failure-resilient services. According to GitHub, kube-monkey runs at a pre-configured hour on weekdays and creates a schedule of deployments that will experience a pod death at … continue reading
NVIDIA becomes founding member of OPI project
NVIDIA announced that it cofounded a Linux Foundation project to democratize innovations in the data center and to further open the NVIDIA DOCA data processing unit software to software providers. The Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) project aims to create a community-driven, standards-based open ecosystem to accelerate networking and other data center infrastructure tasks, according to … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Orb
Backed by NS1 Labs, Orb is an open-source tool for edge observability that utilizes dynamic policy orchestration in order to extract real-time insights from traffic streams at the edge. Those insights are then transformed into actions through integration with modern observability stacks, leading to accelerated time-to-action and a reduction in price. With Orb, users can … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Envoy Gateway
Envoy Gateway makes using Envoy Proxy easier for developers and helps to reverse fragmentation as part of a new effort within the Envoy proxy open-source project to simplify Envoy use in cloud-native application development. Envoy Gateway will reduce existing, redundant efforts around Envoy and make it much easier for application developers to use Envoy as … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: StackRox
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
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: NGINX Config
NGINX Config is a configuration generator built by DigitalOcean to make it easier to configure NGINX. NGINX is a web server that also works as a load balancer, an HTTP cache, and a reverse proxy. According to DigitalOcean, NGINX itself was started in 2002 by Igor Sysoev to help solve the C10K problem, which was … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Project Calico
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
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Caddy Server
Caddy Server 2 is an enterprise-ready, open-source web server with automatic HTTPS written in Go. Caddy offers greater memory safety than servers written in C because a hardened TLS stack powered by the Go standard library serves a significant portion of all Internet traffic. The project can simplify an organization’s architecture by taking care of … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cloudprober
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
DENT 2.0 released
DENT 2.0 is now available with new features that can be utilized by distributed enterprises in retail and remote facilities. The DENT project is an open-source network that uses the Linux Kernel, Switchdev, and other Linux-based projects. DENT was launched in December 2019 under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation with the aim to simplify … continue reading
