Features

Making Microservices Just the Right Size
Building cloud-native applications involves building an application as a series of microservices. The idea being that individual microservices are self-contained slices of an application that can be designed, built and operated independently ...

DoD Taps Sylabs and DeciSym for Test Framework Using Singularity Containers
The Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) Test & Evaluation/Science & Technology (T&E/S&T) Program Office, in collaboration with the Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO) of the Department of Defense (DoD), has selected ...

How To Avoid Cloud-Native Observability Tooling Sprawl
Observability is becoming increasingly crucial for companies employing containerized environments and Kubernetes. A recent CNCF report finds that 72% of respondents use as many as nine different tools to monitor their cloud-native ...

The 2023 Kubernetes Benchmark Report: Are K8s Workloads Better Configured?
Organizations are increasingly adopting Kubernetes to automate the deployment, management and scaling of containerized applications. As they do, dev, sec and ops teams are paying closer attention to how their workloads are ...

6 Common Pitfalls to Avoid When Deploying Kubernetes
Since its debut in 2015, Kubernetes has steadily grown into a de facto container orchestrator. Gartner estimates that by 2026, 90% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production. To ...

JFrog Report Surfaces Container Adoption Surge
JFrog this week published a report that suggests application environments are evolving as more organizations embrace containers and memory-safe programming languages like Rust to build and deploy applications. The report is based ...

Just-in-Time Permissions in Microservices-Based Applications
In a previous article, we discussed keeping microservices secure, even from themselves. But what else can you do to keep your application free of vulnerabilities that could be exploited by bad actors? ...

Mirantis to Integrate Shipa Acquisition With Lens IDE
This April, Mirantis will add automated application discovery, security and observability to its Lens Kubernetes Platform following its acquisition of Shipa. Shipa’s platform automatically creates all required Kubernetes objects and configuration files ...

Using the Kubernetes Lens Dashboard to Boost Kubernetes Security
Kubernetes security is a complex challenge. Luckily, new open source tools are springing up to help address it. I’ll discuss a new, popular tool called Kubernetes Lens, which is making Kubernetes clusters ...

CNCF to Add Another Security Certification
At the CloudNative SecurityCon North America 2023 conference today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that it will release a Kubernetes and cloud security associate (KCSA) certification. The KCSA certification will ...