Cloud-Native Networking

Cloud Native Now: One for the Road
Cloud native is no longer a trend — it’s the fabric weaving together edge, hybrid, and public cloud into the backbone of today’s platforms ...

Sidecars or Sharing: A Practical Guide to Selecting Your Service Mesh
Over the last year or so, we’ve seen a lot of confusion about “sidecars or sidecarless” in the context of service meshes. This architectural choice turns out to be very important – ...

Latest Release of Linkerd Service Mesh Includes Preview of Windows Support
Buoyant this week made available an update to the open source Linkerd service mesh that, in addition to providing access to an experimental version that integrates Windows platforms, also makes it now ...

Akamai Allies with Fermyon to Advance Wasm Adoption
Akamai and Fermyon Technologies have an alliance that brings Wasm software components to a highly distributed cloud computing network ...

CNCF Provides Access to Reference Architectures for Cloud-Native Use Cases
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has published a report that defines guidance reference architectures, in addition to guidance to help IT teams better identify which open-source software projects are mature enough ...

Azure Flaw Highlights Need to Secure Kubernetes Cloud Clusters
A security flaw found by Mandiant in Microsoft's AKS service would have let attackers escalate privileges and steal data ...

Bouyant Extends Reach and Scope of Linkerd Service Mesh
Bouyant has added IPv6 support along with an ability to more easily review audit zero-trust security policies before they are enforced by the open-source Linkerd service mesh ...

Survey Surfaces Cloud-Native Complexity in the Enterprise
A survey of 760 IT leaders and engineers at organizations with more than 1,000 employees finds nearly three-quarters (72%) work for organizations that have deployed multiple cloud-native platforms, with 46% managing three ...

Nutanix Project Beacon Illuminates Cloud-Native Navigation
Decoupled distribution delivers. That’s the message emanating from the cloud-native community as enterprise technology vendors now seek to enable application mobility across clouds ...

Maintainers of Istio Move Closer to Delivering on Lighter-Weight Ambient Promise
Istio maintainers are preparing a beta release of the Ambient edition of the platform that eliminates the need to rely on container sidecars to deploy it ...