Cloud-Native Platforms Archives

VMware Doubles Down on Kubernetes

At the VMworld 2019 conference, VMware today previewed the VMware Tanzu management framework along with an instance of Kubernetes running natively within the VMware vSphere platform to improve the performance of containerized ...

Mike Vizard | August 26, 2019 | cloud, kubernetes, vmware, VMware Tanzu, VMworld, vSphere

Red Hat Makes Service Mesh Play

Red Hat this week announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh, which provides a control plane to ease management and orchestration of distributed instances of proxy servers necessary for ...

Mike Vizard | August 23, 2019 | Istio, Linkerd, open source, Openshift, red hat, Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh Operator, service mesh

Kazuhm Simplifies Kubernetes Management

Kazuhm has launched a Kubernetes-as-a-service (KaaS) offering that is designed from the ground up to be deployed on-premises or in the cloud using a common management interface. Company CEO Tim O’Neal says ...

Mike Vizard | August 16, 2019 | cloud platforms, KaaS, Kazuhm, kubernetes, Kubernetes as a service, managed service

Cluster Monitoring With Prometheus Operator

According to Sysdig’s container report, adoption of containers and usage of orchestration tools such as Kubernetes has grown more than 51% from 2018, to host and manage their workloads in the cluster ...

Lavanya Subbarayalu | July 29, 2019 | containers, Gerrit, monitoring, Prometheus

Fairwinds Debuts Open Source Kubernetes Configuration Tool

Fairwinds today announced the availability of open source Polaris software that can be employed to optimize the configuration of Kubernetes clusters. Available for download or as a service hosted by Fairwinds, Polaris ...

Mike Vizard | July 25, 2019 | Fairwinds, kubernetes, Kubernetes management, managed service, Polaris

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IBM Kabanero Melds Multiple Open Source Kubernetes Projects

At the Open Source and Software Development (OSCON) conference, IBM today announced it is combining a variety of container technologies together to create a single integrated platform dubbed Kabanero. Nate Ziemann, senior ...

Mike Vizard | July 16, 2019 | container, IBM, Kabanero, kubernetes, open source

Graphical Tool for Deploying Kubernetes Gets Certified

One of the first graphical tools to ever be created to simplify deploying Kubernetes has been certified as a Kubernetes installer by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Dubbed Breeze, the open ...

Mike Vizard | July 1, 2019

Upbound Extends Reach of Kubernetes Control Plane

Upbound, at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2019 conference, announced it has extended the open source Crossplane control plane that it developed to run natively on Kubernetes to ...

Mike Vizard | June 28, 2019 | APIs, cloud services, container management, control plane, Crossplane, kubernetes

Talos Systems Delivers OS Optimized for Kubernetes

Talos Systems today made available a beta release of its Talos operating system (OS) optimized to run Kubernetes clusters. Company CEO Timothy Gerla says unlike other lightweight distributions of Linux, Talos OS ...

Mike Vizard | June 27, 2019 | APIs, kubernetes, operating system, Talos, Talos OS

Platform9 Extends Scope of Kubernetes Services

Platform9 announced this week it is adding support for a range of complementary technologies to the managed Kubernetes service it already provides. Company CEO Sirish Raghuram says now that Kubernetes adoption is ...