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VMware Expands Tanzu for Kubernetes Portfolio
At the VMware Explore conference this week, VMware announced it is adding a range of capabilities to its Tanzu for Kubernetes portfolio, including the ability to deploy the Tanzu Application Platform (TAP) ...

Containers are Temporary – The Data Inside Is Not
Containers are maturing and becoming essential for organizations pursuing an application modernization strategy. With all their code consolidated into a single package, containers can be spun up quickly and seamlessly moved from ...

Kubernetes 1.25 Update Focuses on Security and Storage
This week, the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) for Kubernetes released a Combiner update to the cloud-native platform that adds more than 40 enhancements. The bulk of the enhancements delivered in Kubernetes 1.25 ...

Optimizing Developer Impact on K8s Security
Kubernetes just passed its eighth birthday (hope you didn’t forget to send a card). In that time, the DevSecOps movement has decisively shifted security left. The evolution continues to add work to ...

Buoyant Updates Linkerd to Simplify Zero-Trust Security
Buoyant today updated the open source Linkerd service mesh to add support for route-based authorization policies that enforce zero-trust policies within microsegmented Kubernetes environments. In addition, the company is adding support for ...

TDengine Brings Open Source Time-Series Database to Kubernetes
TDengine today made available an update to its namesake open source time-series database so that it can now run on Kubernetes clusters. TDengine CEO Jeff Tao says TDengine 3.0 is differentiated from ...

Preparing Your Incident Response Team for Container Incidents
The use of containers—and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes—is increasing rapidly around the globe. Analysts predict that by 2023, more than 70% of global organizations will be running more than two containerized applications ...

Granulate Tool Automatically Rightsizes Kubernetes Workloads
This week, Granulate will add a free gMaestro tool to its existing portfolio of tools for optimizing workloads on Kubernetes clusters. The new tool makes it possible to reduce overprovisioning of infrastructure ...

Red Hat Extends OpenShift Platform Plus Environment
Red Hat today furthered its efforts to provide a complete curated Kubernetes environment with an update to its Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus offering that provides a raft of additional management and ...

The NSA Wants the Network Locked Down
The NSA’s Kubernetes Hardening Guide offers a lot of advice on implementing the best defense-in-depth approach to your workloads. Part of that guide outlines how Kubernetes users can secure and harden the ...