Cloud-Native Platforms
New Relic Integrates Pixie for Kubernetes Observability
During the online FutureStack 2021 conference today, New Relic announced it is integrating its open source Pixie observability platform for Kubernetes with the New Relic One platform. The company gained Pixie with ...
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, ...
Upbound Advances Crossplane Control Plane for Hybrid IT Environments
Upbound has made generally available an Upbound Cloud service through which IT teams can manage clusters running a curated distribution of Crossplane, an open source control plane being advanced under the auspices ...
Seven Step Transformation Blueprint for Containers
This blog explains how to apply my Seven-Step Transformation Blueprint to containers. Digital transformations are hard. Many organizations falter while trying to transform their people, practices and technologies to meet strategic objectives. ...
Kubermatic K8s Platform 2.17 Automates Multi-Cluster Backups
Kubermatic has added automated backups and replications and other features to its Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform (KKP) 2.17 release, as the multi-cluster Kubernetes platform provider seeks to offer a more comprehensive platform to ...
Can Great DX Enable Full-Cycle Development?
Lately, there’s been a shift toward developers owning the entire software life cycle. This is enabled by DevOps tools that help implement things like GitOps, metrics, networking and security features, and much ...
Confluent Makes Deploying Kafka on Kubernetes Easier
Confluent has extended its reach by making it possible to deploy a curated instance of the open source Kafka distributed event streaming software on top of a Kubernetes environment running in an ...
Kubernetes Maturity Phase 3: Deployment
In our previous articles, we introduced the Kubernetes Maturity Model, discussed how to prepare for Kubernetes and explored the transformation phase. Now you’re ready to think about deploying Kubernetes; phase three of ...
Enterprise Container Platforms Optimize Operations
As I indicated in my prior blog, A New Approach to K8s and Containers, a new kind of enterprise Kubernetes-based container platform is needed to accelerate time-to-value and realize efficient, safe operation ...
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 ...
