The lightweight Kubernetes distribution K3s becomes a CNCF Sandbox project
Rancher Labs has announced its lightweight, production-grade Kubernetes distribution, K3s, has been accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project. The CNCF Sandbox accepts projects it believes will be beneficial to the cloud-native community and warrants experimentation. According to Rancher Labs, K3s enables organizations to run Kubernetes in resource-constrained environments, in … continue reading
UnifyID releases authentication solution based on a person’s gait
UnifyID has announced the release of a new biometric authentication solution, GaitAuth. GaitAuth can authenticate users based on the way they walk. According to the company, the solution only needs to capture a few steps from a person to perform the authentication. UnifyID believes that a person’s gait is very unique, as it is a … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: BackupAssist ER, 3CLogic partners with AVANT, and Amazon EBS io2 Volume
Backup and recovery company BackupAssist has announced that its new solution BackupAssist ER is now generally available. BackupAssist ER is a fully automated disk to disk to cloud backup solution for Windows Servers. The solution will allow users to quickly recover data and systems, both locally and in the cloud. Other features of the solution … continue reading
ITOps Open Source Project of the Week: Gemini
The open source project Gemini aims to solve a problem that has frustrated developers since Kubernetes was introduced: the inability to run databases or persistent storage in Kubernetes. To fix this, Kubernetes enablement company Fairwinds built Gemini on the VolumeSnapshot API. The new solution creaties a more robust and user-friendly interface that allows for automated … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: IBM POWER10, Snow Software’s updates, and Elastic 7.9
IBM has revealed its IBM POWER10 processors. This new CPU provides three times the energy efficiency, workload capacity, and container density compared to IBM POWER9. Features of IBM POWER10 include support for multi-petabyte memory clusters, new hardware-enabled security capabilities, and new processor core architectures. “Enterprise-grade hybrid clouds require a robust on-premises and off-site architecture inclusive … continue reading
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU: Datadog Live Containers, NeuVector compliance templates, and more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU is continuing through tomorrow. Here are a few more highlights from the event: Datadog updates Live Containers Datadog Live Containers is a solution that provides visibility into containers across an environment. It now provides curated views for Kubernetes applications, which allows users to look at performance data and surface critical information … continue reading
VMware introducing new self-driving operations capabilities across vRealize portfolio
VMware has announced several new updates across its vRealize Cloud Management portfolio. New enhancements include self-driving operations and modern infrastructure automation. The updates are spread across VMware vRealize Automation 8.2, VMware vRealize Automation Cloud, VMware vRealize Log Insight 8.2, VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud, VMware vRealize Operations 8.2, VMware vRealize Operations Cloud, and VMware vRealize … continue reading
What’s coming in Kubernetes 1.19
The latest release of the open-source container-orchestration system Kubernetes is expected next month. Kubernetes 1.19 is expected to have 34 new enhancements with 10 brand new features, eight newly stable features, two management changes and 14 improvements to existing features. “Kubernetes as a project is maturing, support has been increased from nine to 12 months, … continue reading
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU: Carbon Relay releases Red Sky Ops free edition, Cloudtamer.io and Kublr announce integration, and more
The virtual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU kicked off yesterday, and a number of cloud-native companies announced new offerings and updates to existing products. Here are a few highlights: Carbon Relay launches free, self-service version of Red Sky Ops Red Sky Ops is an AIOps platform that automatically configures and optimizes containerized applications. By making it … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Apstra AOS 3.3, Ninja Data Protection, and D2iQ extends free access to DxOdyssey
Networking company Apstra has announced the release of Apstra AOS 3.3. The latest version introduces Intent-Based Network (IBN) capabilities to Juniper Networks, along with other operational and open-networking enhancements. According to Apstra, this version will significantly increase the speed and reliability of networks in data centers. “The monitoring and managing of Data Center operations continue … continue reading
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe: Red Hat announces Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, OpenShift 4.5, and a partnership with Intuit on Argo CD
Red Hat made a number of announcements in the cluster management and Kubernetes space at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Europe today. Top announcements included: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes released Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes is designed to help organizations scale Red Hat OpenShift with enterprise-grade management capabilities across hybrid … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: EventNative
EventNative is an open source, event collection service that captures all events that an application generates and then streams them to the preferred data warehouse. Users don’t need to modify their existing tracking features when they’re using a drop-in segment and Google Analytics backend. The project currently has support for RedShift and BigQuery and PostgreSQL, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: TeamViewer web monitoring, Terraform AD provider, and Silverthread and D2iQ’s partnership
TeamViewer has added a new web monitoring module that lets admins monitor and remotely manage servers, as well as check websites for accessibility and functionality. According to TeamViewer, this will help minimize downtime and missed revenue. “With the TeamViewer Web Monitoring module as part of the ‘Remote Monitoring and Management’ solution, we offer an integrated … continue reading
Pulumi adds new Kubernetes capabilities
Infrastructure as Code platform Pulumi has announced new Kubernetes capabilities. The new features include an in-cluster Kubernetes Operator, support for authoring Open Policy Agent (OPA)-based policies, a crd2pulumi tool for creating strongly-typed APIs for Kubernetes CRDs, and a tool for converting YAML manifests to Pulumi Python, TypeScript, Go, or .NET. The new Kubernetes Operator provides … continue reading
