Topic: api
The Cloud Security Alliance announces new risks, threats and vulnerabilities for migrating to the hybrid cloud
With hybrid clouds now often the starting point for organizations in their cloud journey, management, access control, data use, and service contracts become more difficult with multi-cloud convergence, according to the Cloud Security Alliance in a whitepaper. “Although the hybrid cloud environment seamlessly integrates private and public cloud, bringing onboard new IT capabilities to the … continue reading
Cloud Foundry announces project updates around Kubernetes
Today, the Cloud Foundry Foundation announced cf-for-k8s release, KubeCF 2.5 and Stratos 4.2 to ensure that Cloud Foundry’s architecture includes the most modern and cloud-native infrastructure technology. Cf-for-k8s is a Kubernetes-native distribution of Cloud Foundry that blends the Cloud Foundry developer API with popular Kubernetes technologies including Istio, Envoy, Fluentd, and Kubernetes. Version 1.0 also … continue reading
FireMon announces new agile network security policy management platform
FireMon’s new agile network security policy management platform offers security capabilities to enable cloud and digital transformation initiatives. “Our customers have told us that traditional approaches to managing network security policy are too cumbersome for their dynamic cloud and hybrid environments,” said Satin H. Mirchandani, the president and CEO of FireMon. “Our agile approach to … 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
Platform9 announces new Kubernetes capabilities
Platform9 announced new capabilities for enterprise-managed Kubernetes solutions to accelerate deployment and ease-of-use. The new capabilities include managed Calico networking with API support, application wizard for rapid bare-metal deployments, and multi-cluster observability and alerting for more accurate troubleshooting. These features are now available, including support for Kubernetes release 1.17, for all Platform9 customers of the … continue reading
Puppet announces Relay for cloud-native, event driven automation
Puppet introduced the public beta of Relay, an event-driven automation platform that automates across any cloud infrastructure, tools and APIs that developers, DevOps engineers, and SREs are managing manually currently. “Without a way to manage and automate the flood of events and hundreds of APIs developers use – time, money and mental capital are being … continue reading
Red Hat Quay 3.3 now available
Red Hat has released the latest version of its container registry Quay. The release of Red Hat Quay 3.3 focuses on deeper integrations with Red Hat OpenShift through the introduction of Quay Bridge Operator, which automates common workflows when the two solutions are used in conjunction with one another. “Built in collaboration with the Red … continue reading
ServiceNow API integrates with Connect iPaaS
Platform as a service provider RoboMQ announced an integration with ServiceNow as an API connector. ServiceNow customers can now build and deploy integration workflows that streamline and automate business processes with other SaaS, cloud and enterprise applications using the available API connectors within Connect iPaaS. Connect iPaaS is a no-code API and data integration platform … continue reading
Itential launches new API services for Network Infrastructure as Code
Intelligent automation software provider Itential launched its new API services to further Network Infrastructure as Code and help network engineers adopt CI/CD principles for network automation and programmability. “By incorporating a Network Infrastructure as Code approach to automation, enterprises can use Itential’s modern agile software development principles to build, test, validate, and deploy network changes … continue reading
Cloud 66 adds new features to its container delivery pipeline
Operations tools provider Cloud 66 is providing a number of new features to its container delivery pipeline, Skycap. The features include Formations, Stencils, and an open-source project named Copper. “With the advance of microservices, containers and the surge of APIs, developers and operations teams appreciate a self-service toolchain that operations curate, and developers can run … continue reading
DigitalOcean announces new Kubernetes deployment solution
DigitalOcean wants to provide an easier way to run containerized applications in the cloud with the introduction of DigitalOcean Kubernetes. The new solution is designed for developers and businesses looking for an easier way to deploy and manage container workloads. “Over the last year, Kubernetes has emerged as the container orchestration platform of choice, and … continue reading
Open Container Initiative introduces Distribution Specification project for container images
The Open Container Initiative (OCI) has announced the launch of the Distribution Specification project. The project intends to standardize container image distribution based on specification for the Docker Registry HTTP API V2 protocol, which supports the pushing and pulling of container images According to the OCI, while the Docker registry is becoming the de facto … continue reading
