KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021: GitLab Operator; Falco updates; and Red Hat OpenShift latest version
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 kicked off earlier this week, and the event has resulted in a number of Kubernetes and cloud-native companies announcing updates to their platforms. Here are a few highlights: GitLab Operator now available The GitLab Operator allows developers to run instances of GitLab on Kubernetes platforms, like Red Hat OpenShift. … continue reading
Auth0 now available on Microsoft Azure
Auth0 announced that it launched its Auth0 Identity Platform on Microsoft Azure to unlock a secure cloud deployment option for organizations seeking strategic fit with their technology stack. Auth0’s identity platform provides organizations with tools to support security, compliance, and data residency that apply to them. Organizations requiring data residency options can take advantage of … continue reading
Google Cloud Next ‘21: Google Distributed Cloud, Google Cloud Cortex Framework, and Vertex AI Workbench
Google Cloud Next ‘21 kicked off today, and Google utilized the event to announce a number of updates to its cloud offerings. One new addition to the Google Cloud portfolio is Google Distributed Cloud, which includes software and hardware to extend the Google Cloud infrastructure to the edge and data centers. It is intended for … continue reading
Report: Major disconnect between understanding of security importance and implementation
A majority of organizations understand the importance of modern security in cloud native deployments, but few seem to be following through on that. According to a new survey from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), 85% of respondents consider modern security to be of the utmost importance. However, only 9% of those surveyed had a … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: IBM and Apptio partnership, NS1 Cloud-Managed DDI, and Cribl LogStream Cloud Enterprise Edition
IBM and Apptio have announced a new collaboration to help drive adoption of IBM’s open hybrid cloud. The companies will provide customers with optimization and migration capabilities to IBM Cloud through Red Hat OpenShift in Apptio’s financial decision engine. In addition, IBM Global Business Services will advise clients using strategy, design, road mapping, and architectural … continue reading
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 kicks off
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 starts today, and already a number of companies have announced new updates to their Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms. Here are a few highlights of the news from the event: Seagate announces Exos X CSI Driver The Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver can be used to manage persistent volumes, control … continue reading
Facebook outage exposes emerging risks of modern SDN networks
The Oct. 4 outage that took Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram down for six hours is indicative of the issues we are facing in modern network architecture. While there has been a lot of chatter about misconfiguration and DNS failures, the reality could have more to do with Facebook’s software-defined networks and the propensity for errors … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: TrueNAS CORE
TrueNAS is an open-source storage OS that gives users the power to build their own professional-grade storage system to use in a variety of data-intensive applications without any software costs. “IT professionals, photographers, designers, audio/video producers and editors, developers, and any user serious about storing and protecting lots of data can take advantage of TrueNAS … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Solo.io funding, TrueNAS and Futurex integration, and Kentik funding
Solo.io has announced it raised $135 million in a Series C funding round, bringing the company’s total funding to-date to $171.5 million and its valuation up to $1 billion. According to the company, this is a 10x increase since its last funding round in October of last year. The Series C was led by Altimeter … continue reading
Nirmata releases policy management solution to ensure compliance of Kubernetes workloads
Policy-based security and automation company Nirmata has announced the release of its Cloud Native Policy Management solution, which helps teams ensure security, compliance, and readiness of Kubernetes workloads. According to Nirmata, automating the creation, deployment, and management of policy-based guardrails allows customers to get insights, alerts, and reports. It also allows for better collaboration across … continue reading
OpenStack Xena release takes aim at reducing technical debt
OpenStack announced the 24th release of its open-source cloud infrastructure software. Dubbed “Xena,” updates include new hardware features, improved integration among components, and a reduction of technical debt. The new release follows a new finding that organizations with deployments ranging from hundreds of cores to six million cores have logged significant growth according to the … continue reading
A People’s History of Kubernetes
The 30th anniversary of Linux gives us a chance to reflect on the evolution of open source and how it has transformed the corporate landscape of technology-makers. While open-source software was originally seen as a democratization of technology and a threat to traditional corporations, disruptive startups and tech giants who have adapted successfully have found … continue reading
Report: MTTR proves to be inaccurate metric for success
The mean time to resolve (MTTR), the industry gold standard for success and efficiency, proves to be an inaccurate metric for success. The 2021 VOID report by chaos engineering company Verica set to come to conclusions about how to tackle software-based failures, but do to the distribution of data, the company found MTTR wasn’t a … continue reading
Rookout introduces new Kubernetes debugging capabilities
Observability platform Rookout has announced the release of new debugging capabilities for Kubernetes. According to Rookout, debugging complex, cloud-native applications can be difficult even for experienced engineers due to their distributed nature. Rookout has attempted to solve this by creating a new UI that groups cloud resources by namespace, pod, and cluster, and highlighting components … continue reading
