Kubernetes v1.27 replaces default image registry
The first Kubernetes release of 2023, Kubernetes v1.27 has been announced and it consists of 60 new enhancements, 18 of which are entering alpha and 13 of which are graduating to Stable. With this release, the image registry, k8sgcr.io, has been replaced with registry.k8s.io, which is fully controlled by the community. The old registry will … continue reading
Delivering zero trust security for Kubernetes in 6 steps
It’s no secret that businesses and organizations are embracing cloud services, containers, and other innovations to boost business productivity, scale more efficiently, and better manage infrastructure costs. However, transitioning legacy environments to the cloud introduces new challenges around securing dynamic and ephemeral cloud infrastructure. How can organizations unlock the full potential of the cloud without … continue reading
Intel and Arm announce partnership for building SOCs
Intel Foundry and Arm announced a collaboration to develop a new line of advanced system-on-chip (SoC) designs on the Intel 18A processors. The move is part of Intel’s IDM 2.0 strategy to invest in leading-edge manufacturing capacity around the world. The collaboration aims to combine Arm’s industry-leading CPU technology with Intel’s advanced process technologies for … continue reading
Linkerd 2.13 introduces dynamic request routing, circuit breaking, and automated health monitoring
Buoyant, creator of the CNCF’s graduated mesh service Linkerd, today announced the release of Linkerd 2.13. With this, users gain dynamic request routing based on the Kubernetes Gateway API, circuit breaking for overloaded services, a FIPS-compatible version for government users, and more. Additionally, Linkerd 2.13 provides users with a set of free security and reliability … continue reading
PagerDuty brings end-to-end IT automation with new AIOps offering
PagerDuty has announced that PagerDuty AIOps is now generally available, enabling its customers to have access to new automation capabilities that can be applied to their IT departments. The new offering includes capabilities aimed at reducing the amount of time that IT teams are spending on managing multiple vendors and manual processes. These include things … continue reading
NetBox Labs raises $20 million in series A funding
The open-source startup NetBox Labs announced that it received $20 million in a Series A funding round following the company’s spin-out from NS1, which IBM acquired. “With the increasingly dynamic, distributed, and critical nature of networks, combined with the explosion of devices and the rapid transition of every enterprise to SaaS and connected systems, networking … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Uyuni
Uyuni is an open-source configuration and infrastructure management tool designed specifically for software-defined infrastructure. It can be used on any Linux server connected to a network, including IoT edge devices or a Kubernete environment. Uyuni supports management for SUSE Linux Enterprise, openSUSE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Amazon Linux, and AlmaLinux … continue reading
IBM announces new single frame and rack mount options for z16 and LinuxONE 4
IBM announced new single-frame and rack-mount options for its z16 and LinuxONE 4 mainframe computers launched last year. This will enable customers to better optimize their data centers for flexibility, sustainability, and security. By consolidating Linux workloads onto an IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 4 rather than running them on x86 servers under comparable conditions and in … continue reading
Honeycomb announces $50 million in Series D funding
Observability company Honeycomb today announced that it has raised $50 million in a Series D funding round led by headline with participation from other existing investors, Insight Partners, and Scale Venture Partners. This brings the total capital raised by Honeycomb to$150 million, including customer angel investments from Dominik Richter, CEO of HelloFresh, and Guillermo Rauch, … continue reading
Rocket Content Automation accelerates IT modernization without introducing added risks
Enterprise software company Rocket Software today launched Rocket Content Automation. This release is geared at enabling important operational connections between systems and data sources without bringing in additional risks. With this release, businesses and IT organizations are enabled to collaborate to create improved experiences using automation capabilities spanning the Rocket Content Services portfolio. “Automation is … continue reading
Rookout adds fourth pillar of observability with Smart Snapshots
Observability was built on the foundation of three pillars: logs, metrics, and traces; Now, the company Rookout wants to add a fourth: snapshots. “We’ve been hearing for years about the three pillars of observability,” said Liran Haimovitch, CTO and co-founder of Rookout. “Snapshots are the next level for those moments when something goes very wrong … continue reading
Amazon VPC Lattice aims to improve how we manage distributed applications
Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon VPC Lattice, a fully managed networking solution that simplifies the connectivity, security, and monitoring between microservices in a distributed application. The solution enables users to define their application’s network topology in terms of logical groups of services and provides automated network configuration, security policy enforcement, and traffic routing. … continue reading
Mirantis Container Cloud updates make operations easier both on-premise and in the cloud
Open-source cloud computing software and services company Mirantis today announced Mirantis Container Cloud 2.23 (MCC 2.23) with new features to simplify operations, such as the ability to monitor application performance with a Grafana dashboard. The latest release of MCC also offers users the ability to make updates to Kubernetes clusters with a one-click “upgrade” button … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Keycloak
With Keycloak, users can add authentication to applications and secure devices with minimum effort. The project provides user federation, strong authentication, user management, fine-grained authorization, and more. Keycloak provides single-sign out, which means users only have to log out once to be logged out of all applications that use Keycloak. By configuring the Identity Provider … continue reading
