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What Does Managed Kubernetes Mean, Anyway?

As Kubernetes has come to dominate the container world, managed Kubernetes has become an important strategy for companies seeking to monetize Kubernetes. But what does “managed Kubernetes” actually mean? That depends on ...

Christopher Tozzi | January 3, 2018 | container orchestration tool, kubernetes, managed Kubernetes

InfluxData Prometheus Monitoring Analytics

InfluxData Gives Prometheus Monitoring a Real-Time Analytics Edge

There’s no shortage of tools for monitoring containers these days, and an increasing number of commercial offerings are incorporating the open source Prometheus monitoring software managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation ...

Mike Vizard | January 2, 2018 | Container Monitoring, InfluxData, Prometheus

CNCF Delivers Robust Prometheus Container Monitoring

While every IT administrator intuitively accepts the idea that monitoring adds the value, the cost of instrumenting and monitoring every application has proven to be prohibitive. As a result, only a small ...

Mike Vizard | November 10, 2017 | Cloud Native Computing Foundation, containers, microservices, monitoring, Prometheus

Kubernetes: Because Everyone is Doing It

I went to grade school in the mid 1990s, a time when skateboarding was in a cultural upswing. Professional skateboarders were celebrities and every child wanted to be associated with this new ...

contributor | November 2, 2017 | abstraction, container, google, kubernetes, modularity, shared services

Aqua Security Bolsters Container Security

Now that containers are showing up with increased frequency in production environments, the challenges associated with securing those containers are becoming more apparent to developers and IT security teams alike. The latest ...

Mike Vizard | November 1, 2017 | Aqua Security, compliance, containers, hypervisors, linux, machine learning, runtime security, Windows

Cisco Allies with Google on Kubernetes

Google and Cisco Systems today announced a strategic alliance in which the two companies will work closely to extend the reach of Google cloud services based on Kubernetes and other container technologies ...

Mike Vizard | October 25, 2017 | cisco, Cisco Systems, cloud, containers, google, Google Cloud Platform, hardware, kubernetes, microservices, on-premises

CNCF Adds 2 Projects to Better Secure Containers

At the Open Source Summit Europe 2017 conference today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced it is adding two projects to its portfolio to address the security of container images and ...

Mike Vizard | October 24, 2017 | Cloud Native Computing Foundation, cncf, containers, notary, open source, Open Source Summit Europe 2017, security, The Linux Foundation, The Update Framework

IBM Joins Docker to Shift Apps to the Cloud

Docker Inc. at the DockerCon Europe 2017 conference extended its alliance with IBM as part of an effort to entice more IT organizations to lift and shift existing legacy applications into the ...

Mike Vizard | October 18, 2017 | alliance, containers, Docker Enterprise Edition, Docker Inc., DockerCon Europe, IBM, microservices, microsoft, Modernize Traditional Application program

Docker Inc. Embraces Kubernetes

At the DockerCon Europe 2017 conference, Docker Inc. announced it has made the Kubernetes container orchestration engine an equal citizen to Docker Swam within the context of Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) container-as-a-service ...

Mike Vizard | October 17, 2017 | container as a service, container orchestration platform, Docker Inc., DockerCon Europe, kubernetes, microservices, platform as a service

Cloud Foundry Embraces Kubernetes Runtime Environment

The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF), at a Cloud Foundry Summit Europe conference, announced it will make the Cloud Foundry Container Runtime (CFCR) the default runtime for deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters, using ...