Topic: open source
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Nushell
Nushell is an open-source project that aims to bring a rich programming language and a full-featured shell into one package. The project is inspired by Plan 9’s rc shell and aims to provide a more modern shell experience. It also takes design cues from traditional shells like bash, PowerShell, gradually typed languages like TypeScript, functional … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Helm Dashboards
Komodor launched the open-source project Helm Dashboard which provides the missing GUI for Helm. The open-source project runs locally and opens in the browser so that developers can visualize which Helm deployments failed and where the root cause was. Developers can explore how a Helm Chart changed over time, rollback to a prior version, or … continue reading
Tetrate announces new Istio training course with CNCF
Tetrate, the creator of Tetrate Service Bridge (TSB) to help with service mesh adoption, announced that it developed a new official training course for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The new course teaches how to monitor, connect, and secure microservices using Istio and is designed for anyone who wants to build on their knowledge … continue reading
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: cert-manager
Cert-manager, an open-source Kubernetes add-on that can automate the management and issuance of TLS certificates from various issuing sources, has become a CNCF incubating project. The project can ensure that certificates are up-to-date and can renew certificates before expiration to run highly secure, encrypted data communications using TLS. “cert-manager is probably one of the first … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Wazuh
Wazuh is an open-source security platform for threat prevention, detection, and response that can protect workloads across on-premises, virtualized, containerized, and cloud-based environments. It consists of an endpoint security agent deployed to the monitoring systems and a management server which collects and analyzes data gathered by those agents. It is fully integrated with Elastic Stack, … continue reading
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Spiffe and Spire
Spiffe and Spire is an open-source universal identity control plane for distributed systems. It allows users to secure microservices communication automatically with Envoy, X.509, or JWT. Spiffe is a Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone which works to offer a secure identity to every workload in a modern production environment. It also removes the need … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Clusterpedia
Clusterpedia is an encyclopedia of Kubernetes clusters that can help users synchronize, search for, and control multi-cluster resources. The inspiration behind its name is Wikipedia, according to the developers behind the project on GitHub. It is a CNCF sandbox project that includes support for complex searches, filters, sorting, paging, and more. Clusterpedia also offers support … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Service Mesh Interface
Service Mesh Interface (SMI) provides a standard interface for service meshes on Kubernetes, a basic feature set for common service mesh use cases, and the flexibility to support new service mesh capabilities over time. The specification defines a common standard that can be implemented by various providers and it follows the CNCF code of conduct. … continue reading
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Waltz
Waltz is an open-source project that lets users visualize and define their organization’s technology landscape developed by Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank released the project in early 2018 to help users make smarter decisions on technology investment. “A core belief behind Waltz is that technology information should be accessible by everyone within your organisation. Furthermore employees … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Zabbix
Zabbix is an enterprise-class, open-source distributed monitoring solution released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. With it, users can get a single pane of glass view of their whole IT infrastructure stack including network, server, cloud, application, and service monitoring. Zabbix is scalable to any infrastructure whether on-premise or in the cloud. … continue reading
Shoreline.io announces open source solutions library to deliver self-healing infrastructure
The Incident Automation company Shoreline.io announced a collection of Op Packs that make it easier to diagnose and repair common infrastructure incidents in production cloud environments called the Shoreline open source solutions library. The more than 35 free Op Packs cover issues such as JVM memory leaks, filling disks, rogue processes, and stuck Kubernetes pods. … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: kube-monkey
Kube-monkey is an implementation of Netflix’s Chaos Monkey specifically for Kubernetes clusters. It works by randomly removing Kubernetes (k8s) pods in the cluster, encouraging and validating the development of failure-resilient services. According to GitHub, kube-monkey runs at a pre-configured hour on weekdays and creates a schedule of deployments that will experience a pod death at … continue reading
