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.
Loft Labs Makes Virtual K8s Clusters More Accessible
Loft Labs today updated its open source platform for virtualizing Kubernetes clusters to make it possible to use templates to pre-configure virtual clusters on behalf of application development and deployment teams. Administrators ...
OutSystems Previews Low-Code Platform on Kubernetes
OutSystems today revealed it has launched a Project Neo initiative as part of an effort to provide a low-code application development platform based on Kubernetes that makes it simpler for organizations to ...
Red Hat Tightens Integration Between Podman and RHEL
Red Hat today made generally available an update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that adds full support for the Podman tool. Podman is used for managing containers and pods on Kubernetes ...
CNCF Advances Longhorn Distributed Block Storage Platform
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has voted to advance the Longhorn distributed block storage system for Kubernetes to the next level. Longhorn was originally developed ...
Microsoft Extends Cloud-Native Portfolio
At its online Ignite 2021 conference this week, Microsoft expanded its portfolio of tools and platforms for building cloud-native applications using containers to include a preview of Azure Container Apps, a fully ...
Chronosphere Adds Query Builder Tool Based on PromQL
Chronosphere, a provider of an observability platform for cloud-native applications based on microservices, this week added support for a Query Builder tool based on the Prometheus query language (PromQL). That capability comes ...
Knative Middleware Reaches 1.0 Milestone
The committee that oversees the development of Knative, open source middleware for integrating Kubernetes clusters with serverless computing frameworks, announced today that a 1.0 release is now available. Omer Bensaadon, a senior ...
CNCF Embraces Dapr to Simplify Building Distributed Apps
The Technical Oversight Committee for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) revealed today that Dapr, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that make it simpler to build distributed applications, has become ...
SUSE Makes NeuVector Container Security Platform Open Source
SUSE has acquired NeuVector to add an enterprise-grade container security tool to its cloud-native computing portfolio. That will soon become available as open source software, the company says. Sheng Liang, president of ...
Canonical Extends Reach of MicroK8s
Canonical has updated its lightweight distribution of Kubernetes, known as MicroK8s, to add support for version 1.22 of Kubernetes in addition to making available in beta a version that now runs on ...
