Cloud-Native Platforms
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 ...
Pain Points Persist as Reliance on Kubernetes Rises
A survey of more than 1,097 IT professionals published this week finds 42% are running at least half of their business-critical applications on the Kubernetes platform, with roughly a quarter of respondents ...
Pure Storage Expands Portworx’s K8s Storage Reach
At its online Pure//Accelerate Digital event, Pure Storage today announced it has extended Portworx Enterprise to support clusters running the VMware Tanzu distributions of Kubernetes in addition to adding support for dynamic ...
Continuous Evolution: The CI/CD Story
Often, developers’ tools are as important as the software they’re building. Billions of dollars, millions of lines of code and thousands of engineers are involved in the development of the toolchain that ...
VMware Launches App Connectivity Platform Based on Istio
VMware today launched a VMware Modern Apps Connectivity suite that combines its Tanzu Service Mesh and VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer ALB software into a single offering. The Tanzu Service Mesh is ...
Are You Tracing Kubernetes Effectively?
Distributed tracing, like logging and observability, is a key functionality for keeping your services healthy and predictable. Contrary to logs and observability, which shows what happens on a service, tracing allows developers ...
How to Build Cloud-Native Deployment Pipelines
The Tekton project is synonymous with cloud-native CI/CD. Tekton, which is an integral part of the CD Foundation, is a capable and agile tool that provides Kubernetes-native components for dev tooling. Tekton ...
