Cloud-Native Platforms Archives

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 ...

Mike Vizard | June 25, 2019 | IT Ops, kubernetes, managed services provider, MSP, open source, platfform, Platform9

Dynatrace Dives Deeper into Kubernetes

Dynatrace has deepened its commitment to Kubernetes by adding dashboards, additional filters and metrics for monitoring both Kubernetes clusters and individual nodes. The data is then fed into the company’s Davis artificial ...

Mike Vizard | June 5, 2019 | dashboards, devops, Dynatrace, Kubernetes adoption, Kubernetes clusters

DigitalOcean Adds Monitoring to Managed Kubernetes Service

DigitalOcean has added monitoring tools at no extra cost to a managed Kubernetes service now generally available on its public cloud. Shiven Ramji, senior vice president of product for DigitalOcean, says the ...

Mike Vizard | May 27, 2019 | cloud service, kubernetes, Kubernetes as a service, managed service, monitoring tools

Replex Delivers Governance Tools for Kubernetes

Fresh off raising $4.15 million in seed funding, Replex has made available a namesake governance and cost management platform designed for Kubernetes environments. Company CEO Patrick Kirchhoff says that although IT service ...