Cloud-Native Platforms
DataStax Extends Operator Reach for Databases
DataStax this week updated its Operator for K8ssandra, an instance of the open source Apache Cassandra database that runs natively on Kubernetes. Patrick McFadin, vice president of developer relations at DataStax, says ...
5 CNCF Projects for Streaming and Messaging
Event-driven architecture is becoming more commonplace within cloud-native ecosystems. By focusing on events, services can automatically trigger additional functionality, reducing manual legwork and evolving the traditional request-response communication paradigm. In such streaming ...
Case Study: Using K8s to Navigate Medical Shortages
Kubernetes (K8s) continues to grab the attention of engineers within many sectors as the industry-standard method to deploy and orchestrate large fleets of containers. Cloud-native strategies involving K8s are having a modernizing ...
CNCF Accepts Knative Middleware for Serverless Frameworks
The technical oversight committee (TOC) for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today voted to accept Knative middleware as an incubating project for integrating Kubernetes clusters with serverless computing frameworks. Knative was ...
D2iQ Allies With Kong to Manage APIs on K8s Clusters
D2iQ has allied with Kong Inc. to make it simpler to provision and manage a service connectivity platform running on a Kubernetes cluster. Kong Inc. has been making a case for a ...
Survey Surfaces Cloud-Native Stress Points
A survey from Platform9, a managed Kubernetes service provider, finds that even as organizations embrace cloud-native technologies, concerns over security, management, high availability and observability remain. The survey, which polled more than ...
Loft Labs SDK Extends Virtual Clusters to Build Plug-Ins
Loft Labs today added a plug-in capability and associated software development kit (SDK) that collectively make virtual clusters running on Kubernetes platforms more extensible. Lukas Gentele, Loft CEO, says the goal is ...
Komodor Unifies Tools for Troubleshooting K8s
Komodor this week launched an open source project, dubbed Validkube, that promises to simplify Kubernetes troubleshooting. Itiel Shwartz, Komodor CTO, says Validkube is an amalgamation of three existing projects that are now ...
Open Policy Agent 101: A Beginner’s Guide
More than 90% of applications will be cloud-native by 2023. As organizations transition from monolithic, on-premises environments to dynamic cloud-based ones, ensuring access control becomes more critical—and complex. That’s why I co-created ...
Virtualizing Kubernetes Clusters to Boost Productivity
In this episode of View With Vizard, fresh from picking up $4.6 million in financing, Loft CEO Lukas Gentele talks with Mike Vizard about how virtualizing Kubernetes clusters increases IT productivity. The ...
