Topic: open source
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cloud Foundry BOSH
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open-source solution for provisioning and deploying software to virtual machines (VMs). It also includes capabilities for monitoring, failure recovery, and software updating. The tool was initially designed to deploy to Cloud Foundry PaaS, but it can also be deployed to almost any other software as well, the maintainers claim. It … continue reading
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: Pingora
Cloudflare announced that it is open-sourcing Pingora, a Rust framework used to build services that power a significant portion of the traffic on Cloudflare. Pingora is released under the Apache License version 2.0. Pingora is an advanced Rust-based async multithreaded framework designed to facilitate the development of HTTP proxy services. Highlighting its robustness and efficiency, … 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: Eclipse Kapua
Eclipse Kapua is a modular platform designed to integrate IoT devices and smart sensors, facilitating the convergence of Operation Technology (OT) and IT. Its architecture supports multi-protocol device connectivity through a message broker, initially adopting MQTT but also supporting AMQP and WebSockets. This connectivity framework includes authentication, authorization, and a Device Registry for organizing and … 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: Zulip
Zulip is an open-source team chat alternative to tools like Slack or Teams. In Zulip, conversations are organized into streams (think channels in Slack) and streams contain topics, which hold conversations around a specific idea. For example, a team organizing a conference may have a stream called “annual summit,” which is divided into topics like … continue reading
Cisco to acquire Isovalent
Cisco announced the intent to acquire Isovalent, which provides open-source software and enterprise solutions solving networking, security, and observability needs for modern cloud native infrastructure. Isolavent created Cilium, an eBPF-based networking tool, and contributed it to the CNCF. Through that contribution and collaborations with the community, Isovalent has advanced the project to the status of … 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
Canonical releases low-touch cloud solution MicroCloud
Canonical has officially released MicroCloud, an open-source cloud solution, as part of its expanding cloud infrastructure portfolio. The new solution enables IT professionals to deploy clouds to their environment using a single command, with all of the orchestration handled for them. MicroCloud is specifically designed for scalable clusters and edge deployments across various enterprises. The … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Pixie
Pixie is an open-source observability tool for Kubernetes applications. Pixie uses eBPF to automatically capture telemetry data without manual instrumentation. Users can swiftly access metrics, events, traces, and logs without code modification through dynamic eBPF probes and ingestors. The system enables easy integration without requiring changes to the existing codebase, allowing users to delve into … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Tetragon
Tetragon is a security tool for Kubernetes that uses eBPF to apply policies and filters, reducing observation overhead, enabling process tracking, and enforcing policies in real-time. Developed by the creators of Cilium and eBPF, Tetragon offers real-time security observability and enforcement using eBPF. It can detect and respond to important security events, including process execution, … continue reading
