Features

Lightweight Environments in Kubernetes
It’s becoming widely understood that testing needs to shift left as organizations rapidly grow their development environments. The question that remains: Exactly how should these organizations approach end-to-end testing and integration testing ...

Software Architecture in a Cloud-Native World
What exactly do software architects do? When you think of a software architect, you think of a primarily technical position within the development organization. In many people’s minds, a software architect is ...

Adopting FinOps in a Large-Scale Cloud Deployment
One of the biggest issues related to large-scale cloud deployments is overspending. It’s no surprise that as organizations scale their cloud-native Kubernetes environments, the associated costs rise along with that growth. However, ...

Ermetic Adds Kubernetes Support to CNAPP
Ermetic has added Kubernetes support to its cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that enables IT and cybersecurity teams to discover and fix misconfigurations, compliance violations and risky or excessive privileges. Amy Ariel, ...

PerfectScale Unfurls SaaS Edition of AI Platform to Control K8s Costs
PerfectScale this week launched a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its namesake platform that employs machine learning algorithms to identify usage patterns that better enable IT teams to control Kubernetes costs. Brendan Cooper, ...

Do Cloud-Native Architectures Make Apps More Reliable?
Why are we moving our applications to cloud-native architectures? Companies are undergoing massive migration transformations to move monolithic, on-premises applications to cloud-native architectures. Why are they doing this? What benefits are they ...

3 Miniaturized Kubernetes Distros to Manage Compact Containers
By now, you are likely well aware of Kubernetes, the comprehensive container orchestration platform. Although many people think the platform is overly complex and not beginner-friendly, this is not necessarily true. Miniaturized ...

Advanced Container Security: Auto-Benchmarking, Pentesting, XDR and More
Container security refers to the set of practices, tools and technologies used to secure containerized applications and the underlying infrastructure they run on. This includes securing the container images and runtime environment, ...

Principle of Shared Responsibility in Cloud-Native Applications
Using the cloud means you can focus on your application and use a third party for most of your infrastructure. The cloud provides virtual interfaces that abstract away the details of operating ...

VMware Extends Kubernetes Reach to Bare Metal Platforms
At the Mobile World Congress conference, VMware today extended its Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) framework to make it possible to run disaggregated and virtualized radio access network (RAN) functions directly on ...