Application development

Why You Need a Kubernetes Bill of Materials (KBOM)
You’ve probably heard of software bills of materials (SBOMs). And you may already be familiar with infrastructure bills of materials (IBOM) as well. Both ideas are garnering much attention lately as a ...

Red Hat Adds Interconnect and Cybersecurity Services for Kubernetes
Red Hat today added a Red Hat Service Interconnect to its portfolio that is based on an open source Skupper.io project that enables Layer 7 networking between application components running on different ...

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 ...

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 ...

Privilege Escalation in Cloud-Native App Production Environments
With today’s modern digital applications, managing access permissions during operational events is crucial to ensuring the safety and security of an organization’s production applications and infrastructure. A common and essential security principle, ...

Study Finds Kubernetes Usage Tied to Business Success
In 2023, cloud-native technologies are becoming the norm for modern software development. And new data showed that cloud-native platforms like Kubernetes are transforming how businesses operate for the better. Kubernetes is bringing ...

Managing Technical Debt in a Cloud-Native Application
Technical debt is the cost of doing additional work caused by choosing an easy, limited or sub-optimal solution now rather than using a better approach that would take longer or cost more ...

Making Sure Your Cloud-Native Applications Can Fail
Make sure your applications can fail. Sounds weird, doesn’t it? But nothing is more critical to creating a highly reliable, cloud-native application than to ensure you can fail successfully. The key is ...

Traefik Labs Adds API Hub for Kubernetes Environments
Traefik Labs has launched a hub for Kubernetes environments that makes it simpler to publish, secure and manage application programming interfaces (APIs). Traefik Labs CEO Emile Vauge says Traefik Hub is compatible ...

CI/CD and the Cloud-Native Development Pipeline
Cloud-native architectures are designed to take advantage of the elasticity and scalability of the cloud, allowing organizations to quickly and easily deploy and scale their applications. However, elastic and scalable applications require ...