ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Nautobot
Nautobot serves as both a Network Source of Truth and a Network Automation Platform, built on the Django Python framework and supporting PostgreSQL or MySQL databases. It aims to establish a flexible and definitive source for networking information, utilizing core data models to represent the intended state of network infrastructure. These models cover a variety … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Strimzi
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Strimzi as a CNCF incubating project. Strimzi simplifies the deployment and management of Apache Kafka clusters on Kubernetes, leveraging the operator pattern to ease installation, upgrades, and security tasks. Apache Kafka, known for its scalability and fault tolerance, is widely used for building event-driven architectures … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: EMCO
EMCO, which stands for Edge Multi-Cluster Orchestrator, is a control plane and application orchestrator for Kubernetes, enabling organizations to connect and deploy their workloads across public cloud, private clouds, and the edge, while still maintaining communication with and among applications. It intelligently assigns workloads into clusters, and interacts with the Kubernetes API server to hand … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Clusternet
Clusternet is a tool for managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across different environments. The goal of the project is to make management as easy as “visiting the Internet.” The interface lets you manage or visit clusters from a single place as if they were running locally. According to the project maintainers, this helps eliminate the need … continue reading
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Spiderfoot
SpiderFoot is an open-source tool designed to automate OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) for threat intelligence and mapping attack surfaces. The project enables the exploration of a target using a wide range of data sources, thus aiding in cybersecurity, infosec, and threat intelligence. SpiderFoot can be used for various purposes, including reconnaissance, information gathering, and security … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Capsule
Capsule is an open-source framework for implementing multi-tenant and policy-based environments in Kubernetes clusters. It was created to solve the challenge of cluster sprawl, which is when the number of clusters in an organization grows to a number that is difficult to manage. Normally, one could use the Namespace object to create partitions of a … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: FOCUS
The FinOps Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) provides consistency and standardization to cloud cost data. It helps companies visualize the value of cloud services and transforms complex billing data into a simple standardized schema. FOCUS simplifies multi-cloud billing data, enhances reporting consistency across various vendors, and streamlines FinOps capabilities such as allocation, chargeback, budgeting, forecasting, … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Sparkplug
Sparkplug is an open-source specification from the Eclipse Foundation that provides MQTT clients with a framework for integrating data from applications, sensors, devices, and gateways. MQTT is a messaging protocol for sensors and mobile devices, often used in IoT. The Sparkplug specification was designed specifically for use in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) architectures. “The … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: k3s
K3s is a certified lightweight Kubernetes distribution specifically tailored for IoT and Edge computing environments. It is optimized for unattended, resource-constrained, and remote locations or within IoT appliances. K3s is packaged as a compact binary of less than 70MB, streamlining the installation, operation, and automatic updates of a production Kubernetes cluster. This distribution supports both … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cilium
Cilium provides eBPF-based networking, observability, and security for container workloads. It enables users to secure network connectivity between application services deployed using Linux container management platforms like Kubernetes. Cilium is built upon a Linux kernel technology known as eBPF. This technology allows for the real-time integration of robust security, visibility, and network control logic directly … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: SingularityCE
SingularityCE is an open-source container platform designed for use with high-performance computing (HPC) environments. Users can package complex applications into a single file, which enables portability and reproducibility across complex environments. It supports cryptographic signatures and encryption, and also offers a simple security model where users are considered to be the same user whether they … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: OpenTofu
The Linux Foundation has introduced OpenTofu, another open-source alternative to the Terraform infrastructure as code provisioning tool. This move was prompted by Terraform’s recent license change from MPLv2 to a Business Source License v1.1, which raised concerns in the open-source community. The switch early last month involved HashiCorp’s’ products including the infrastructure-as-code service Terraform, the … continue reading
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Grafana Beyla
In an effort to simplify application observability adoption, Grafana introduces Grafana Beyla, an open-source eBPF auto-instrumentation tool currently in public preview. Beyla offers span information for fundamental transactions and RED metrics (Rate-Errors-Duration) for Linux HTTP/S and gRPC services, all without the need for manual code modifications to insert probes. eBPF, short for Extended Berkeley Packet … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Fluentd
Fluentd is an open-source log collector that is intended to help companies gain a better understanding of their data. It unifies all parts of processing log data, including collecting, filtering, buffering, and outputing logs. This is made possible because all data is structured in JSON as much as possible. It also utilizes a flexible plugin … continue reading
