Topic: containers
Tufin announces security automation for containers and microservices
Tufin, the market-leading provider of Network Security Policy Orchestration solutions, today announced its latest product offering, Tufin Orca, a cloud-based solution that enables users to extend Tufin’s policy-based approach to secure containers and microservices. Tufin Orca is available through an early access program that is now open. The solution integrates with DevOps teams’ CI/CD tools to scan for … continue reading
Container security pioneer StackRox secures $25 Million in series B funding
StackRox, the leader in security for containerized cloud-native applications, announced today that it has secured $25 million in Series B funding. This funding round is being led by Redpoint Ventures and includes follow-on investments from Sequoia Capital and Amplify Partners. StackRox delivers the industry’s only solution that offers continuous detection for applications running on container technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes. … continue reading
premium Serverless vs. containers: How the two stand up next to each other
Serverless computing is the latest trend the IT industry is hopping on, but there is still some confusion about what the technology really means. Despite its name, serverless doesn’t mean servers are no longer necessary. It just means organizations no longer need to use their own physical servers. Instead, servers can be run, accessed and … continue reading
How to extend application performance monitoring to your infrastructure
While application performance monitoring offerings can provide valuable insight into the user experiences of your application, there’s a key factor of performance monitoring and maintenance that APM provider AppDynamics’ senior director of tech evangelism Matt Chotin says businesses don’t put the proper resources behind — measuring how the application’s underlying infrastructure is impacting its performance. “The … continue reading
Kontena introduces certified Kubernetes distribution
Containers and microservices platform provider Kontena has announced a new certified Kubernetes distribution called Pharos. Pharos was designed to help “leapfrog” Kubernetes to a production ready technology. According to the company, Kubernetes has quickly become the de facto standard for container orchestration, but it still has its issues. “We feel we nailed down the developer … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.10 now available
Following its graduation from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the CNCF has announced the release of Kubernetes 1.10. The release focuses on three areas: storage, security and networking. “As the Kubernetes community has grown, our release process represents an amazing demonstration of collaboration in open source software development. Kubernetes continues to gain new users at a … continue reading
Expanded Prometheus support coming to Sysdig Monitor
Container monitoring solution provider Sysdig announced expanded support for the open-source Prometheus monitoring system in their flagship Sysdig Monitor software. Announced late last month, Sysdig will be introducing support subscriptions for users’ self-hosted Prometheus environments, giving users direct assistance with managing the performance measuring and monitoring platform. “Overall, our philosophy is to be open by … continue reading
IBM releases Kubernetes on bare metal nodes
IBM is widening the potential of Kubernetes for its developers by allowing them to create and run complex workloads with managed Kubernetes on bare metal cloud infrastructure. According to the company, this will also help provide agility and flexibility to data, apps and workloads with high computing performance. “This gives developers greater control over where … continue reading
Kublr launches self-service control plane for Kubernetes deployments
Kublr has announced the latest version of its Kubernetes platform. Kublr 1.8 now features a self-service control plane for enabling Kubernetes deployment and management. It allows organizations to deploy Kubernetes at scale right out-of-the-box without needing extensive Kubernetes expertise on hand. “There has been an increasing demand for faster application deployment and delivery leading to … continue reading
VMware announces Kubernetes-based container service
Pivotal and VMware have announced the general availability of its Kubernetes-based container service Pivotal Container Service (PKS). The two companies along with Google Cloud announced it would be collaborating on PKS at a VMware conference in August. The initial version was released late last year. “As you evaluate your enterprise software portfolio, you’re going to have app … continue reading
Portworx announces new open source storage orchestration solution for DevOps teams
Portworx has announced the release of STORK, its new open-source Storage Orchestration Runtime for Kubernetes solution. STORK was developed in collaboration with customers running large-scale stateful applications in production who were looking to address operational issues. “We listened carefully to our enterprise customers and built STORK to solve critical efficiency limitations that enterprises running stateful applications … continue reading
ZeroStack Enhances IT Visibility in Self-Driving Cloud Platform
ZeroStack, Inc., creators of a self-driving on-premises cloud, today unveiled new host-based metrics that enable better, more proactive IT management of its cloud platform. Cloud administrators can now define and enable alerting policies based on the status of physical hosts. Alerting policies can be defined on specific host-based CPU utilization, storage, network bandwidth, and other … continue reading
