Cloud-Native Platforms
11 Things to Know about Databases and Postgres in Containers
We’re seeing container deployment of database management systems (DBMS) starting to take off, leaving the hype phase and going mainstream. One indication that containerized databases are trending is that Postgres, a well-known ...
Quest Software Takes on Container Management
Quest Software today launched Foglight Container Management, an analytics application that provides both real-time and historical analysis of both container environments and the host infrastructure they run on. Adrian Moir, lead technology ...
Provisioning a K8s Cluster Using Rancher in AWS EC2
In this blog, we’re demonstrating how to use a container tool to create a gossip-based Kubernetes cluster using Rancher (RKE). The rancher is an enterprise open source tool much like Kubernetes and ...
Software AG Details Container Integration Strategy
Software AG is building a container integration strategy around three points of integration intended to provide IT organizations with the level of flexibility that modern microservices-based applications require. Subhash Ramachadran, senior vice ...
Kubernetes and the Challenge of Federation
Wouldn’t it be handy if you could manage multiple Kubernetes clusters using a single tool and interface? Kubernetes would like to let you do this using a feature called federation. The trouble ...
Rancher Advances Kubernetes Lifecycle Management
Rancher Labs has made available version 2.2 of the Rancher management platform, as part of the company’s bid to become a major provider of lifecycle management tools for Kubernetes clusters. The latest ...
Defeating Kubernetes Challenges Through Monitoring
Microservice-based architecture has long since established itself as the backbone for organizations seeking both safe and fast software. The advent and ubiquity of microservices naturally paved the way for container technology, the ...
Gravitational Updates Simplify Kubernetes Deployments
Gravitational has updated its open source packaging tool for deploying Kubernetes clusters to enable packaging multiple Kubernetes applications into a single image file that can be replicated across multiple clusters. In addition, ...
Tetrate Launches Istio Service Mesh Offering
Tetrate this week emerged from stealth to launch what it describes as an enterprise-class implementation of a service mesh based on the open source Istio project. Fresh off raising $12.5 million in ...
Battle for Service Mesh Control Heats Up
While appreciation of precisely what problem a service mesh solves in a Kubernetes environment is still fairly limited in scope, a battle for control over how microservices will be configured and managed ...

