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
OpsRamp Fall 2020 release focuses on new and improved digital experiences
OpsRamp is releasing its Fall 2020 update with a new user experience and dashboards designed to make it easier for IT operations teams to resolve issues. When the company looked at how IT operation teams were driving digital transformation during these uncertain times, it found that IT teams were a strategic differentiator with businesses increasing … 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
Blue Prism’s new Automation Lifecycle Suite accelerates automation projects
Blue Prism announced the release of its Automation Lifecycle Suite with several new tools that make it easier for enterprises to unlock the full potential of intelligent digital workers. The suite includes Automation Lifecycle Management, Process Assessment Tool, and Capture: Process Modeller, which makes it easier to identify, deploy and scale automation and reduce the … 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
Mirantis Lens adds extension API to integrate with any Kubernetes component, toolkit or service
The open cloud company behind the popular Lens Kubernetes IDE project, Mirantis, announced a new Extensions API that enables the rapid development of extensions for seamless integration with any Kubernetes-integrated component, toolkit, or service. “The Extension API and Extensions made in collaboration with many popular CNCF projects, opens up the world to Kubernetes developers greatly … 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
ITOps Times news digest: Instana expands automated monitoring suite, TriggerMesh Cloud Native Integration Platform, and Barracuda acquires Fyde
Instana has announced that it now offers the ability to monitor and trace applications using Google Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, and Storage technologies. “As organizations push their applications to run faster and operate more efficiently, they’re taking advantage of cloud-based software infrastructure platforms such as Google Cloud Storage, PubSub and Cloud Run,” said Chris Farrell, Observability … continue reading
IBM adds new data and automation capabilities to its hybrid cloud software portfolio
IBM announced a series of data and automation updates to Cloud Pak for Data and Cloud Pak for Automation on Red Hat OpenShift to help companies with innovation across their expanding environments and to accelerate digital transformations. Cloud Pak for Data will now receive new industry accelerators for banking, warranty management, supply chain forecasting, and … continue reading
Isovalent launches to help companies utilize Cilium
Isovalent has launched with $29 million in Series A funding to help companies connect, observe, and secure applications with Cilium, which is an eBPF-based networking, security, and observability tool. Cilium’s approach to networking frees applications from outdated techniques that place limits on the agility that is needed to adopt Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies. Isovalent … continue reading
