ITOps Times news digest: Anthos on bare metal, GoSecure funding, and EclecticIQ funding
Google has announced that Anthos is now available for bare metal, opening up new possibilities for how to run workloads. Using Anthos on bare metal enables organizations to utilize their existing investments in hardware, operating systems, and networking infrastructure. Anthos can be deployed on bare metal using either a standalone deployment model where every cluster … continue reading
Splunk acquires cloud network observability company Flowmill
Splunk has announced that it entered into an agreement to acquire Flowmill, which is a cloud network observability provider. The acquisition will help Splunk bolster its Observability Suite. After the acquisition, customers will be able to ingest, analyze, and take action on cloud network and infrastructure data. This will enable them to quickly resolve issues, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: TeamViewer 15.12, Logz.io funding, and Stratusphere UX 6.5
The latest version of TeamViewer is now available for macOS. TeamViewer 15.12 introduces support for Apple’s new architecture Apple Silicon. The new version is optimized for Apple Silicon without relying on the Rosetta 2 emulation, as many applications still do. Key benefits of the latest macOS version of TeamViewer include improved performance and less energy … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: MAAS
This week’s highlighted open-source project of the week is MAAS, which stands for metal-as-a-service. Maintained by Canonical, MAAS allows companies to build their own data center from bare metal servers. Administrators can do self-service, remote installation of Windows, CentOS, ESXi, and Ubuntu on real servers. MAAS enables users to discover, commission, deploy, and dynamically reconfigure … continue reading
Report: Kubernetes running in over half of container environments
Kubernetes now runs over half of container environments. That is according to a new report from Datadog, which revealed that Kubernetes growth has doubled since 2017, and that it is continuing to grow steadily. Datadog analyzed 1.5 billion containers in use by tens of thousands of its customers to get a sense for how image … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Ansible Automation Platform 1.2, new Tardigrade integrations, and Google launches Voucher
Red Hat has announced the release of Ansible Automation Platform 1.2. The latest release focused on improving efficiency, increasing productivity, and controlling risk and expenses. New features include a private Automation Hub, enhancements to the automation services catalog, and new Ansible-maintained Certified Content Collections for popular IT platforms. Storj Labs introduces new integrations for Tardigrade … continue reading
KubeCon North America 2020: Kubernetes Security Specialist certification, Red Hat OpenShift update, and TrilioVault for Kubernetes 2.0
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 kicked off today virtually. Here are a number of announcements from the event: Kubernetes Security Specialist certification now available This certification was first announced by the Linux Foundation and CNCF in July. The Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) requires a two-hour, performance-based exam to prove that a person possesses … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Dynatrace PurePath 4, StorMagic and HPE partnership, and Quantum’s ActiveScale updates
Dynatrace has announced the release of PurePath 4. PurePath is a distributed tracing and code analysis tool, and version 4 expands support for OpenTelemetry, W3C Trace Context, and the latest cloud-native architectures, like service mesh and serverless computing for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. “We pioneered distributed tracing with the introduction of PurePath in … continue reading
StrongDM adds support for securing access to more types of tools
Single sign-on (SSO) for backend infrastructure provider strongDM has announced that it now offers the ability to secure access to all classes of tools that technical staff use. The company has extended support over the past two years to include more database management, SSH, RDP, and kubectl. Other new support include delegation of credentials to … continue reading
Graylog 4.0 to introduce new open source license
Log management company Graylog has announced that it is introducing a Server Side Public License (SSPL) to its open source product in the Graylog 4.0 release, which is available later this week. According to Graylog, SSPL provides similar open source rights as GPL v3. It also extends those rights to cover cloud and SaaS offerings. … continue reading
Hivelocity and Vapor IO team up on bare metal cloud
Bare metal cloud provider Hivelocity has announced it is teaming up with Vapor IO to extend its bare metal cloud to service providers in 36 US cities, starting in Pittsburgh and Atlanta. Vapor IO’s Kinetic Edge platform brings together multi-tenant colocation with software defined interconnection and high-speed networking. According to Hivelocity, the platform provides flexible, … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Tinkerbell
Tinkerbell is a tool that enables users to provision and manage bare metal. It helps standardize infrastructure and application management using the API-centric configuration and automation approach that was pioneered by the Kubernetes community. It is made up of four major components: a DHCP server called Boots, a metadata service called Hegel, an in-memory operating … continue reading
