Cloud-Native Platforms

Cloud Foundry Foundation Advances Korifi PaaS for Kubernetes
This week at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe conference, Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) made available an update to the Korifi edition of its open source Kubernetes-based platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment that adds automatic ...

Going Dutch at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon—and with it, I hope, in-person events in general—are back, bigly. I was one of the ten thousand people attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU conference this week in the wonderful ...

The Ultimate List of Open Source Cloud-Native Tools
There are so many great open source cloud-native tools for nearly everything you want to do. And they’re all in one place—look no further than the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). This ...

Is Kubernetes Fit For Purpose?
Are Kubernetes clusters fit to run many of the applications being deployed on them? That question became the focal point of a panel discussion yesterday in Seattle, Washington, hosted by Tetrate, a ...

Modernizing? Containers are Not Enough; You Need Cloud Native
Many people reading this article already understand the value containers bring to their applications. Most have even implemented a container-based operations infrastructure for their applications. Containers provide a lightweight and platform-agnostic way ...

2023 Marks the Rise of Cloud-Native Platforms
Modern software continues to evolve toward cloud-native. In other words, new software is being built explicitly for the cloud computing paradigm. In contrast to legacy technology bred for traditional deployment styles, cloud-native ...

Welcome To Cloud Native Now!
Today, we rebranded our Container Journal publication to Cloud Native Now. This was a move that was a long time coming. Since we launched Container Journal a few years ago, the cloud-native ...

Canonical Simplifies Deployment of Cloud-Native Infrastructure
Canonical has made available a virtual appliance for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud based on its lightweight MicroK8s distribution of Kubernetes along with a Charmed Operator for open source Kubeflow software ...

Case Study: Why InfluxData’s Storage Team Wrote a Kubernetes Controller
Using Kubernetes for production container orchestration enables InfluxData to run our SaaS database product across multiple cloud providers. In the beginning, we chose to run the InfluxDB storage engine as a StatefulSet ...

Lightbend Adds Java SDK for Cloud-Native Kalix PaaS
Lightbend today adds a Java software development kit (SDK) for its Kalix platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment that makes it simpler to build and deploy cloud-native applications. Lightbend CEO Jonas Bonér says the SDK ...