Cloud-Native Networking

The Most Crucial Component in an ML Pipeline is Invisible
The process of building and training machine learning models is always in the spotlight. There is a lot of talk about different Neural Network architectures, or new frameworks, facilitating the idea-to-implementation transition ...

Workload Mobility in a Service Mesh World
Service mesh has been on an interesting journey (service mess joke here). If you look back at its history, you’ll see a huge focus on the “zero-trust security” aspects of mesh. Effortless, ...

Service Mesh Extensibility Explained
Have you ever wondered how to extend your service mesh for your specific business needs? Perhaps you need to add external authorization or advanced rate-limiting? Or maybe you want to add custom ...

CNCF Launches Integrated API Gateway and Ingress Controller Project
The technical oversight committee for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today that an emissary-ingress gateway for application programming interfaces (APIs) and an ingress controller designed to run natively on Kubernetes, ...

How Linkerd Approaches Extensibility
Balancing minimalism with the pressure to deliver new features is not a concern unique to service mesh. It’s a question any team overseeing well-adopted open-source software must address at some point. Still, ...

Linkerd Update Simplifies Service Mesh Extensions
The maintainers of the open source Linkerd service mesh project today announced the release of a 2.10 update that makes it simpler to extend the platform. Linkerd, originally developed by Bouyant, provides ...

Tigera Previews Calico for Windows on Microsoft AKS
Tigera is making available a preview of open source Calico virtual networking and security software for running Windows in the Microsoft Azure Kubernetes (AKS) service. Amit Gupta, vice president of business development ...

Mavenir Taps Platform9 to Manage CNFs
Platform9 and Mavenir revealed today that Platform9’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing Kubernetes environments is being extended to manage container network functions (CNFs) deployed on Mavenir’s network infrastructure. The goal is to ...

VMware Makes Persistent Data Available Via Kubernetes API
VMware announced today general availability of a vSAN Data Persistence Platform, through which Kubernetes clusters will be able to access data stored in VMware platforms. Developed in collaboration with Cloudian and MinIO, ...

Survey Shows Microservices Prefer Key-Value, NoSQL Databases
A survey conducted by IDC suggests the rise of microservices is driving a significant expansion in the number of databases that IT teams will need to manage in the cloud-native era. The survey, conducted ...