Mike Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist with over 25 years of experience. He also contributed to IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, Baseline and a variety of other IT titles. Previously, Vizard was the editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise as well as Editor-in-Chief for CRN and InfoWorld.
CNCF Takes Control of Open Source etcd Data Store Project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which oversees the development of Kubernetes, announced today that the open source etcd distributed key value store has now been accepted as a complementary incubation project ...
VMware Embraces Istio Service Mesh
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 conference, VMware today announced a beta release of a service mesh for Kubernetes based on the open source Istio project. Pere Monclus, CTO for ...
Indeed Report Finds Kubernetes Job Market Hot
A new report from online job-search site Indeed finds IT professionals with the skills required to manage Kubernetes container orchestration software is now the single-most searched topic on the company’s site. Andrew ...
Kubernetes Security Flaw Raises IT Operations Concerns
A recently identified security flaw in Kubernetes container orchestration software is adding fuel to a simmering debate over how the Kubernetes update process should be managed. The security flaw involves a privilege ...
Portworx Adds Data Migration Tools for Kubernetes
Portworx this week announced it has made possible to migrate both applications data and pod configurations between Kubernetes via a PX-Motion tool that has been added to version 2.0 of the company’s ...
Docker Inc. Open Sources Kubernetes Configuration Tool
At the DockerCon Europe 2018 conference, Docker Inc. today announced it will make Docker Compose for Kubernetes available as an open source project. Docker Compose for Kubernetes was developed by Docker Inc ...
Docker Inc. Partners with Microsoft on Open Source CNAB Specification
Docker Inc. and Microsoft jointly announced today an open source Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB) specification for packaging and running distributed applications across multiple platforms, including Docker Engine, Kubernetes and cloud services ...
Docker Inc. Launches Docker Desktop Enterprise
At the DockerCon Europe 2018 conference, Docker Inc. today launched Docker Desktop Enterprise, an instance of the widely employed tool for building containerized applications that sports a graphical user interface (GUI) rather ...
CNCF Pushes Forward with Kubernetes 1.13 Release
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has released Kubernetes 1.13, an update that formally makes available a kubeadm capability to make it easier to administer Kubernetes. Kubernetes 1.13 also makes available a ...
CNCF Elevates Envoy Service Proxy Project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this week announced the open source Envoy service proxy software originally developed by Lyft has now graduated. Envoy becomes the third CNCF project to achieve this ...

