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Rafay Systems Adds Backstage Plugin to K8s Management Platform
Rafay Systems added support for the open source Backstage application developer portal to its Kubernetes management platform. Abhinav Mishra, senior product manager for Rafay Systems, said Backstage plugins for the Rafay Kubernetes ...
3 Ways to Offset Kubernetes Complexity
Kubernetes has emerged as the leading open source container orchestration system. According to CNCF’s latest Cloud Native Survey, up to 96% of organizations are using or evaluating Kubernetes. But the same report ...
Why the Best Cloud-Native Approach is Cloud-Agnostic
Among the many advantages of the cloud-native approach are speed, cost optimization, scalability and reduced time-to-market. It’s no wonder, then, that Gartner estimates that more than 85% of organizations will embrace a ...
Lightbend Unfurls Distributed Akka Platform for Asynchronous Apps
Lightbend today launched a distributed cluster environment for deploying asynchronous Java applications based on its Akka toolkit. James Townley, senior product manager for Akka at Lightbend, said the Akka Distributed Cluster makes ...
Serverless Computing is Great, Except When it’s Not
Serverless computing is an innovative way of operating your application in the cloud. Essentially, it allows you to run an application without the need to allocate computer instances to the program. This ...
Beating Kubernetes Complexity With Instant Platform Engineering
Survey after survey shows that complexity, security and a skills gap are the top challenges organizations face in deploying Kubernetes. In the latest CNCF Annual Survey, for example, the biggest challenges responders ...
KSOC Publishes SBOM Specification for Kubernetes
Kubernetes Security Operations Center (KSOC) this week published a Kubernetes Bill of Materials (KBOM) specification that promises to make it simpler to discover vulnerabilities. KBOM, available via an open source command line ...
NVMe-over-Fabrics in Cloud-Native Environments
By delivering much better speed, reduced latency, and higher parallelism compared to conventional storage technologies like SATA and SAS, Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) has transformed the storage business. NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) ...
Red Hat Extends Scope of Podman Container Tool for IT Admins
Red Hat today added a systems roles capability to its Podman tool for developing, managing and running containers on Linux platforms. This capability aims to make it simpler for administrators to automatically ...
8 Tips for Successful Container Vulnerability Scanning
Container vulnerability scanning is a critical part of container security. It involves inspecting container images and their components to identify potential security issues, weaknesses or vulnerabilities. Containers are lightweight, portable units used ...
