Topic: serverless
Cloud Native Computing Foundation announces CloudEvents graduation
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) recently announced the graduation of CloudEvents, a project designed to standardize event metadata for improved interoperability across various services, platforms, and systems. This specification enables systems to understand the purpose of events and route them appropriately without needing deep, event-specific insight. Initiated by the CNCF Serverless Working Group in … continue reading
Lightbend updates developer experience for Kalix
Lightbend, a company specializing in cloud-native microservices frameworks, has introduced a new Developer Experience (DX) for their Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering called Kalix. Kalix provides a unique programming model that aims to swiftly build scalable, mission-critical, stateful applications using a serverless architecture while focusing solely on the application’s business logic. The platform works with Kubernetes-based cloud … continue reading
Vercel launches Edge Functions
Vercel launched Edge Functions, which are JavaScript, TypeScript, or WebAssembly functions that are generally both less expensive and faster than traditional serverless functions, according to the company. Since the beta launch over the summer, Vercel added the ability to place Edge Functions into a specific region, added support for WebAssembly, and improved performance. With the … continue reading
Cloudflare releases updated distributed object storage solution
Cloudflare R2 Storage, the distributed object storage that eliminates egress costs, is now generally available. The new version gives developers an S3-compatible API for seamless migration and an integration with Cloudflare Workers, a highly scalable serverless computing platform. “Egress fees are nothing but a tax on developers, stifling innovation and creativity. We are redefining the … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Checkov
Checkov is a static code analysis tool for infrastructure-as-code that scans cloud infrastructure provisioned using Terraform, Terraform plan, Cloudformation, Kubernetes, Dockerfile, Serverless, or ARM Templates. It detects security and compliance misconfigurations using graph-based scanning. The open-source project also powers Bridgecrew, which is platform for codifying and streamlining cloud security throughout the development life cycle. Checkov … continue reading
Aqua Security launches Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform for containers and VMs running on Arm devices
Aqua Security launched a new container runtime security solution for Arm 64-bit environments that enables organizations to protect their high-density workloads on platforms such as AWS Graviton2 instances and more. “Our customers will be able to continue and accelerate their cloud native journey with Aqua’s support for Arm-based architectures. Through our commitment to supporting the … 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
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: TriggerMesh
TriggerMesh is a cloud-native integration platform built for the serverless world. The open-source project was designed for integrating cloud-native serverless functions or functions-as-a-service. According to Mark Hinkle, co-founder of TriggerMesh, the solution was inspired by Google’s release of Knative, a Kubernetes-based platform for deploying and managing modern serverless workloads. RELATED CONTENT: TriggerMesh joins Cloud Native … continue reading
TriggerMesh joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation
TriggerMesh has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and announced that it is formally showing support for Kubernetes and the CNCF Serverless Working Group driving the CloudEvents specification. “CNCF is the home of Kubernetes, one of the most important cloud technologies today,” said Mark Hinkle, the Co-Founder of TriggerMesh. “Joining CNCF plays an important … continue reading
Report: Lambda adoption scales with the size of organizations
As enterprises get larger, their adoption of Lambda serverless architectures grows due to both developers and managers wanting to move faster, ship faster and have less infrastructure to manage, according to the recently published State of Serverless report published by Datadog. “I think we found that very surprising. You typically see large organizations that are … continue reading
Google previews new Knative-based managed Kubernetes service
Google Cloud is adding a complete managed serverless offering that handles all forms of infrastructure management for DevOps teams, taking low-level programming and deployment tasks off of their hands. The new Google Cloud Run, launched at this week’s Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, aims to let developers move any type of code into … continue reading
Twistlock introduces hybrid cloud, Kubernetes and serverless capabilities in 18.11
Twistlock announced the latest release of its container and cloud-native security platform with new support and features for hybrid cloud, Kubernetes and serverless. This is the company’s 15th major release in the last three years. “Since we shipped the first version of Twistlock in 2015 we’ve worked on 11,100 issues, pushed 5,800 commits, built Twistlock … continue reading
