Cloud-Native Networking
Why 5G Needs Kubernetes
As with many things, COVID-19 sped up the need for high bandwidth delivered fast to end users. Working from home, Zoom calls, VPN connections, social media—all of it requires speed, resiliency and ...
Majority of Microservices Environments Adopt Service Mesh
In the past, we’ve reviewed the efficacy of service mesh and considered whether it’s mature enough for adoption. Others have suggested using service mesh to control both east-west and north-south traffic. Now, ...
When (And When Not) to Use eBPF
Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) is a relatively new feature for Linux kernels that has many DevOps professionals, SREs and engineers excited. But is it a one-stop shop for all of your ...
Why a Cloud-Native Database Must Run on K8s
We’ve been talking about migrating workloads to the cloud for a long time, but a look at the application portfolios of many IT organizations demonstrates that there’s still a lot of work ...
VMware Launches App Connectivity Platform Based on Istio
VMware today launched a VMware Modern Apps Connectivity suite that combines its Tanzu Service Mesh and VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer ALB software into a single offering. The Tanzu Service Mesh is ...
How to Build Cloud-Native Deployment Pipelines
The Tekton project is synonymous with cloud-native CI/CD. Tekton, which is an integral part of the CD Foundation, is a capable and agile tool that provides Kubernetes-native components for dev tooling. Tekton ...
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, ...
