Topic: open source
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: KubeLinter
StackRox has released a new open-source static analysis tool for identifying misconfigurations in Kubernetes deployments. KubeLinter checks YAML files and Helm charts and validates whether they have been configured using security best practices. StackRox recently conducted a study that found human error as a top cause for Kubernetes security incidents, with misconfigurations contributing to 67% … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Knative
Knative is an open-source Kubernetes-based platform for building, deploying and managing modern serverless workloads. It is designed for developer productivity and handles the complex details of deploying and managing cloud-native services. According to the team, the project is focused on API with higher level abstractions; stands up secure and stateless services in seconds; provides loosely … continue reading
Linux Foundations shows progress with its LF edge and LF networking umbrella organizations
The Linux Foundation umbrella projects LF Edge and LF Networking have reached new milestones that highlight trends that set the stage for next-generation technology. “Indicative of what’s coming next, our communities are laying the groundwork for markets like cloud native, 5G, and edge to explode in terms of open deployments,” said Arpit Joshipura, the general … continue reading
Red Hat releases OpenShift Container Storage 4.5
The key features of Red Hat’s newly released OpenShift Container Storage 4.5 include external mode support for shared storage with Red Hat Ceph Storage, support for VMs and applications on OpenShift, and more. By enabling deterministic performance for data workloads such as archives, data lakes, and databases like PostgreSQL, Data Warehouses, and IBM Db2 Warehouse, … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Operator Framework
This week’s featured open-source project is a toolkit designed to manage Kubernetes native applications in an automated and scalable way. The Operator Framework was first introduced in 2018 by CoreOS who saw a high barrier to entry for building Kubernetes applications. More recently, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced the Operator Framework was joining as … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Jaeger
Jaeger is an open-source distributed tracing system designed to monitor and troubleshoot transactions. “As on-the-ground microservice practitioners are quickly realizing, the majority of operational problems that arise when moving to a distributed architecture are ultimately grounded in two areas: networking and observability. It is simply an orders of magnitude larger problem to network and debug … continue reading
Microsoft releases an open-source, cloud-native service mesh
Microsoft is the latest company to release its own service mesh solution. The company announced the open-source project: Open Service Mesh (OSM), a lightweight service mesh that runs on Kubernetes. “It is no secret that although microservice environments enable portability, allow faster and more frequent deployment cycles, and can even enable organizations to create teams … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: New Relic
This week’s featured open-source project is based on New Relic’s observability platform. In an effort to help software engineers instrument everything and better understand their digital systems, the company is making its agents, integrations and SDKs available under an open-source license. “New Relic is committed to open standards, open source instrumentation, and the open communities … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: KUDO
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced it has officially accepted KUDO into the organization as a sandbox project. KUDO, which stands for Kubernetes Universal Declarative Operator, is an open-source project developed by cloud native platform and app management company D2iQ. According to the company, it has been used across the world to simplify the development … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Tsunami
Google is open-sourcing its network security scanning engine in the hopes of helping organizations protect data. Tsunami is designed to detect high severity vulnerabilities with high confidence. “When an attacker begins to exploit security vulnerabilities or security misconfigurations, such as weak passwords, an organization needs to react quickly in order to protect potentially vulnerable assets. … continue reading
Kong brings updated universal service mesh Kuma to CNCF
Kong has announced a significant upgrade to its open-source universal service mesh. Kuma 0.6 features a “hybrid universal mode” that will enable the service mesh to support complex applications in heterogeneous environments such as VMs, Kubernetes clusters, and multiple data centers. With the new release, Kong also announced it will be donating Kuma to the … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Open Horizon
This week’s featured open-source project promises to transform edge computing as we know it. The Open Horizon software project is an application management solution for constrained devices. “Open Horizon lives on the network edge, and typically on constrained devices. Open Horizon is designed to help place your software as close as possible to where the … continue reading
