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.
GitLab Offers CI/CD Platform as Hardened Container Image
GitLab is making available an instance of its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform in the form of a hardened container image that can be downloaded via an Iron Bank repository set ...
Aqua Security Surfaces Threat to Container Hosts
Aqua Security this week reported a new type of cyberattack that exploits Docker application programming interfaces (APIs) to build and run a malicious container image on the host. Asaf Morag, lead data ...
Linux Foundation Partners With CNCF on Kubernetes Certs, Training
The Linux Foundation and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today they are collaboratively developing a Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) certification expected to be available in November. At the same time, ...
Platform9 Expands Managed Kubernetes Portfolio
Platform9 today announced it has extended the reach of its managed Kubernetes services to include open source Prometheus monitoring software and Grafana dashboards along with support for Calico virtual networking software. In ...
Red Hat Expands Container Cost Optimization Tool
Red Hat has extended a free software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering included with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform subscriptions designed to make it easier to control cloud costs. Sergio Ocón-Cárdenas, principal product manager for ...
Thycotic Extends Secrets Management Reach to Kubernetes
Thycotic, a provider of privileged access management (PAM) platform, today announced its support for Kubernetes. The company currently provides two types of PAM platforms for application developers. The first is DevOps Secrets ...
Google Proposes Changes to Istio Steering Committee
Google is making a case for changing the rules under which the open source Istio service mesh project for Kubernetes environments is managed with a proposal to create a new Steering Committee ...
Portshift Unveils Security Framework for Kubernetes Environments
Portshift this week plans to launch a framework that promises to make it easier to identify potential security threats to Kubernetes clusters. Adapted from the ATT&CK cybersecurity framework created by MITRE, a ...
CNCF Embraces Operator Framework to Manage Kubernetes Environments
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this week voted to accept the Operator Framework as an incubation level project. The Operator Framework is an open source ...
Docker Inc. Deepens Ties to AWS Cloud Services
Docker Inc. and Amazon Web Services (AWS) today at the online AWS Cloud Containers Conference announced they are working together to better integrate Docker Compose, Docker Desktop and Docker Hub with Amazon ...
