Cloud-Native Development
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 ...
Serverless Computing is Great, Except When it’s Not
Serverless computing is an innovative way of operating your application in the cloud. Essentially, it allows you to run an application without the need to allocate computer instances to the program. This ...
Beating Kubernetes Complexity With Instant Platform Engineering
Survey after survey shows that complexity, security and a skills gap are the top challenges organizations face in deploying Kubernetes. In the latest CNCF Annual Survey, for example, the biggest challenges responders ...
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 ...
Red Hat Extends Scope of Podman Container Tool for IT Admins
Red Hat today added a systems roles capability to its Podman tool for developing, managing and running containers on Linux platforms. This capability aims to make it simpler for administrators to automatically ...
Nutanix Unveils Data Management Platform for Kubernetes
At its .NEXT conference today, Nutanix added a data management platform for Kubernetes environments running stateful cloud-native applications. In addition, the company launched Project Beacon, a multi-year effort to deliver a portfolio ...
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 ...
SUSE Looks to Extend Reach of Rancher Platform
SUSE has updated its Rancher management platform for Kubernetes to make it simpler to extend the user interface to manage other elements of a cloud-native application environment. Peter Smails, general manager of ...
Overcoming Kubernetes Namespace Limitations
As companies are standardizing on Kubernetes and moving more of their workloads to the platform, the need emerges for resource isolation and, more generally, multi-tenancy features. Kubernetes Namespaces are the tool of ...
