Cloud-Native Networking

When Is Service Mesh Worth It?
Service mesh is getting a lot of interest these days, especially as new meshes enter the market to join Istio, Linkerd and Kuma as established open source options. The technology brings a common ...

OpenELB K8s Load Balancer Plugin Becomes CNCF Sandbox Project
An OpenELB load balancer that plugs into Kubernetes clusters has become a sandbox level project under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Originally developed by the KubeSphere community, OpenELB ...

Tigera Expands Reach of K8s Security and Management Platforms
Tigera today announced that it is adding real-time intrusion detection capabilities with the latest release of Calico Cloud and Calico Enterprise platforms that enable secure networking between Kubernetes clusters. In addition, Tigera ...

Loft Labs Makes Virtual K8s Clusters More Accessible
Loft Labs today updated its open source platform for virtualizing Kubernetes clusters to make it possible to use templates to pre-configure virtual clusters on behalf of application development and deployment teams. Administrators ...

CNCF Embraces Dapr to Simplify Building Distributed Apps
The Technical Oversight Committee for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) revealed today that Dapr, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that make it simpler to build distributed applications, has become ...

SUSE Makes NeuVector Container Security Platform Open Source
SUSE has acquired NeuVector to add an enterprise-grade container security tool to its cloud-native computing portfolio. That will soon become available as open source software, the company says. Sheng Liang, president of ...

4 Container Runtime Projects From CNCF
Containers have become a popular method to build out fully independent and tightly controlled applications that essentially act as if they’re running on their own computer. Container runtimes are the software that ...

6 CNCF Service Mesh Tools
Microservices have grown tremendously in use—they enable decoupled, reusable components and support a rapid development approach. However, it’s challenging to manage a sea of disparate microservices. It’s specifically difficult to consistently apply ...

IBM Makes ModelMesh Open Source
IBM revealed today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference that it is making the ModelMesh tool that enables multiple machine learning models to share a container available as open source ...

Google Previews Anthos Platform for On-Premises IT
At its online Next ’21 conference, Google today previewed a set of Google Distributed Cloud offerings that enable IT teams to deploy its Kubernetes-based Anthos IT platform in on-premises IT environments. The ...