ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Eraser
Eraser is an open source tool for cleaning up unused Kubernetes images in a cluster. “When deploying to Kubernetes, it’s common for pipelines to build and push images to a cluster, but it’s much less common for these images to be cleaned up. This can lead to accumulating bloat on the disk, and a host … continue reading
FCC votes to restore net neutrality
The FCC voted 3-2 today to restore net neutrality, a practice where internet service providers (ISPs) have to treat all communications services equally. In the U.S. net neutrality laws were first established by the Obama administration in 2015, but were repealed in 2018 by the Trump administration. Today’s ruling reclassifies broadband services as a Title … continue reading
Dropbox 2024 Spring release introduces end-to-end encryption for team folders and new Dropbox Replay features
The file storage and sharing company Dropbox just announced its 2024 Spring release which comes with a number of new features, including end-to-end encryption for team folders, additional Dropbox Replay features, new Microsoft integrations, and more. End-to-end encryption has been added to shared team folders, which is beneficial for teams who are working with highly … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cloud Console Cartographer
Cloud Console Cartographer is an open-source project that allows IT teams to more easily read and understand cloud logs from AWS. “If you’ve spent any amount of time digging through logs trying to triage activity in an environment, you’ve probably been overwhelmed with the log data that comes from console activity,” explained Daniel Bohannon, principal … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.30 is now available
The Kubernetes release team has announced that Kubernetes 1.30 is now available. It includes 45 enhancements; 17 are Stable, 18 are in Beta, and 10 are in Alpha. One of the stable features in this release is that the volume manager has been updated to allow the kubelet to populate information about how existing volumes … continue reading
Report: Nearly half of all internet traffic is bots, a third is bad bots
The percentage of internet traffic that is bots continues to rise every year, and last year bots made up 49.6% of all internet traffic, which was a 2% increase from 2022. This is according to Imperva’s 2024 Bad Bot Report, which analyzed bot traffic across the internet. They found that the proportion of bots out … continue reading
Arm announces new NPU and IoT Reference Design Platform
Arm has announced a new neural processing unit (NPU) and a new IoT Reference Design Platform. The company believes these new advancements will help support edge AI applications. Arm Ethos-U85 improves performance by 4x compared to the previous version and also has 20% higher power efficiency. It also has 2048 MAC units, compared to the … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Copa
Copa, short for Copacetic, is an open-source project for vulnerability management. It can automatically apply the necessary patches to a container image based on the results of vulnerability scans. This allows containers to be patched quickly without waiting on a full rebuild upstream, so that they can be redeployed as fast as possible. The maintainers … continue reading
BackBox launches programmatic Network Configuration Management capabilities
The network automation company BackBox has added a set of automated Network Configuration Management (NCM) features to its Network Automation Platform. By adding automation to NCM, tasks can be triggered by parts of the DevOps workflow, such as initiating a backup before an update is performed. This contrasts with traditional NCM which typically is just … continue reading
Vultr Sovereign Cloud and Private Cloud launches to help companies keep up with data sovereignty regulations
Vultr is attempting to make it easier for companies to manage data sovereignty with the launch of its new product, Vultr Sovereign Cloud and Private Cloud. This new offering ensures that data remains within national borders and is adhering to local regulations. According to the company, much of the existing cloud workloads out there are … continue reading
Tufin releases new tool for automating network access requests
The network policy automation company Tufin has announced a new AI assistant designed to make it easier for IT operations teams to get easy answers about the state of the network. TufinMate can be used by end users to ask if there is a current outage, cutting down the time help desk personnel need to … continue reading
Cloudflare acquires Baselime to bolster its serverless observability capabilities
Cloudflare has announced that it has acquired Baselime, which is a cloud-native observability platform for developers. The main benefit of the acquisition is to solve the challenges of performing observability on serverless applications. “Two million developers building on Cloudflare trust us to help scale their apps globally, but can still struggle to understand the behavior … continue reading
