B. Cameron Gain is the founder and owner of ReveCom Media Inc. (www.revecom.io), which offers competitive analysis and testing services for software tools used by developer, operations and security teams. He first began writing about technology when he hacked the Commodore 64 family computer in the early 1980s and documented his exploit. Since his misspent youth, he has put his obsession with software development to better use by writing thousands of papers, manuals and articles for both online and print. His byline has appeared in Wired, PCWorld, Technology Review, Popular Science, EEtimes and numerous other media outlets.
Linkerd’s CNCF Graduation Due to its Simplicity
A few weeks ago, the Linkerd service mesh achieved graduation status as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project, joining the ranks of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy and other CNCF cloud-native cornerstone projects. In ...
Linkerd Benchmarks Back Service Mesh Performance Claims
The use of service mesh is increasingly seen as an essential tool to manage and orchestrate microservices in highly distributed containerized environments. According to a recent Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) survey, ...
Kubermatic K8s Platform 2.17 Automates Multi-Cluster Backups
Kubermatic has added automated backups and replications and other features to its Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform (KKP) 2.17 release, as the multi-cluster Kubernetes platform provider seeks to offer a more comprehensive platform to ...
Will Istio or Linkerd Dominate Service Mesh?
Istio has seen an uptick in adoption and now has the largest market share — albeit, by a slim margin — in the service mesh space, according to the results of the ...
Why Prometheus is an Essential Observability Tool
Prometheus continues to remain as an essential tool for monitoring, and a key component in observability platforms for cloud-native environments in numerous organizations. As one of The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) ...
Despite Google’s ‘Autopilot,’ Kubernetes is Still Hard
We are, obviously, a very long way from being able to put Kubernetes cluster management on “autopilot,” but Google’s new platform ostensibly moves us closer to achieving that goal. Google Kubernetes Engine ...
Former Rancher CEO on the Merger with SUSE
SUSE’s open source development and support will continue to serve as one of its main missions, following SUSE’s plans to extend its reach for customers’ Kubernetes deployments after its purchase of Rancher ...
3 Considerations for Container Debugging
Debugging is a major, critical challenge for software developers. The shift to highly distributed operations in containerized cloud environments over the last year of the pandemic has further complicated the debugging process ...
Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform Supports OPA Integration
Kubernetes’ drawbacks — the enormous advantages it offers, aside— include missing universal security management features, both for clusters and the containers it was designed to orchestrate. Historically, completely different APIs, tools and ...
Longhorn: The Case for Rancher’s Storage Offering
Will Longhorn storage adequately fill out Rancher’s Kubernetes management platform? How to manage and store stateful data associated with container workloads represents yet another challenge for DevOps when making the shift to ...
