Cloud-Native Platforms
Could Nomad Reignite Orchestrator Wars?
Most technology pundits agree that Kubernetes won the container orchestration wars, triumphing over alternatives like Docker Swarm and Mesos. Google even showcases a featured snippet for the exact moment of victory—November 29, ...
Microsoft Application Services Rides Azure Arc to Reach Kubernetes Clusters
Microsoft this week during its online Microsoft Build 2021 conference announced a preview of Azure application services, which leverages the Azure Arc management platform to extend the reach of a framework for ...
AWS Delivers on Amazon ECS Everywhere Promise
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week made generally available an instance of the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) that can run in on-premises IT environments. Scott Sanchez, head of product marketing for ...
Docker, Inc. Rises to Meet Productivity and Security Challenges
During the online DockerCon Live 2021 event today, Docker, Inc. unveiled Docker Development Environments, a tool that makes it possible for developers to automatically create a virtual instance of their development environment ...
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 ...
