ITOps Times news digest: Rancher 2 Terraform Provider, NGINX Ingress Controller 1.5, and HPE to acquire Cray
HashiCorp has made its Rancher2 Terraform provider generally available. According to HashiCorp, the provider is used for interacting with resources supported by Rancher v2. Terraform is the company’s open-source project for cloud infrastructures. Rancher Labs has been working on a Terraform provider for Rancher 2.x ever since releasing version 2 due to the popularity of … continue reading
premium OpenVPN: IT security considerations for remote workers
Despite the fact that remote work can cause security risks, a majority of IT professionals are in favor of employees working remotely. According to research by OpenVPN, 90 percent of IT professionals believe remote workers are a security risk. 92 percent also believe that the benefits of remote work outweigh the risks. Benefits of allowing … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Rook
The Rook project hit a major milestone earlier this month when it released version 1.0. Rook provides storage orchestration for Kubernetes. According to its GitHub page, Rook provides “the platform, framework, and support for a diverse set of storage solutions to natively integrate with cloud-native environments.” Rook makes storage self-managing, self-scaling, and self-healing by automating … continue reading
The Container Security Buyers Guide
The ITOps Times Container Security Buyers Guide features: Moving parts mean more complexity Containing App Vulnerabilities “Doomsday” flaw found in RunC underscores potential for critical container vulnerabilities 9 security best practices for Kubernetes you should be following A guide to container security tools … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Akamai’s Enterprise Defender, Apptio acquires Cloudability, and Xnor.ai’s AI2GO
Akamai has launched Enterprise Defender, which will enable organizations to easily transition to more secure architectures that are based on Zero Trust principles. The solution is designed to provide application specific access rather than network access, protect applications from attacks, protect the workforce from malware and phishing, and deliver better user experiences, the company explained. … continue reading
Catchpoint introduces continuous visibility into networks with Internet Intelligence
Catchpoint has announced the release of Internet Intelligence, a new monitoring capability that will give organizations deeper visibility into their networks. According to the monitoring company, the solution continuously monitors network health and paths to clouds, CDNs, or other distributed architectures in order to show how the network is impacting end user experience. It can … continue reading
Alcide Advisor checks for Kubernetes and Istio vulnerabilities
Security company Alcide has announced the release of Alcide Advisor, which is designed to scan Kubernetes and Istio for compliance, security, and government risks and vulnerabilities. According to Alcide, the solution empowers engineering teams to identify security risks before they can be introduced to the production environment. Alcide Advisor also scans throughout various stages of … continue reading
AIOps Exchange holds inaugural event to lay the groundwork for AIOps’ future
A majority of companies have implemented or are starting to experiment with AIOps, according to a survey from OpsRamp. Of those, a majority of them have seen success with the AIOps implementations. The AIOps Exchange was launched earlier this month, and tomorrow it is holding its inaugural event in San Francisco. The event will feature … continue reading
StorageOS achieves Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification
Storage company StorageOS has announced that it has achieved Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification for its StorageOS Operator. StorageOS Operator enable one-click installation and management of the StorageOS storage solution. By having Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification, the company will be able to provide enhanced Day 1 and Day 2 management. “StorageOS offers customers a … continue reading
F5 completes acquisition of NGINX
Just two months after F5 Networks announced its intent to acquire NGINX, the deal has been closed. NGINX will now operate as its own business unit within F5. “Watching the NGINX and F5 teams planning our joint future proved to me that NGINX has found a great home. While there will always be different approaches … continue reading
MobileIron wants to enable a passwordless future
Security company MobileIron wants to revolutionize the way that organizations handle secrets. Today it introduced a zero trust security platform that uses a mobile device in lieu of a standard username and password. According to MobileIron, this mobile-centric strategy will enable organizations to continually enforce and protect data and provides correlation between the critical signals … continue reading
NeuVector announces new container security risk scores
NeuVector has announced new capabilities that will enable security teams to assess how secure containers are. In its new dashboard, NeuVector will provide security risk scores that will summarize risk factors and offer recommendations on how to improve the score. The score will be comprised of the risk of east-west attacks, ingress and egress connections, … continue reading
