Cloud-Native Platforms
Microservices: The More the Merrier or Meshy-er?
Microservices are here and the size of their deployment is growing. As discussed in Part 1 of our series, “Containers and Functions: Leveraging Ephemeral Infrastructure Effectively,” a successful journey through adoption of ...
Docker Inc. Partners with Microsoft on Open Source CNAB Specification
Docker Inc. and Microsoft jointly announced today an open source Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB) specification for packaging and running distributed applications across multiple platforms, including Docker Engine, Kubernetes and cloud services ...
CNCF Pushes Forward with Kubernetes 1.13 Release
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has released Kubernetes 1.13, an update that formally makes available a kubeadm capability to make it easier to administer Kubernetes. Kubernetes 1.13 also makes available a ...
Containers and Functions: Leveraging Ephemeral Infrastructure Effectively
With containers, microservices and functions interweaving through modern application design, diligence is necessary to make sure you’re successfully navigating when to use containers and functions as application packaging technologies and how to ...
CNCF Elevates Envoy Service Proxy Project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this week announced the open source Envoy service proxy software originally developed by Lyft has now graduated. Envoy becomes the third CNCF project to achieve this ...
AWS Adds MicroVMs for Containers and Serverless Computing Frameworks
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week revealed it has developed a microVM dubbed Firecracker that it is using to isolate IT infrastructure resources more efficiently for customers using either the managed AWS ...
Scalyr Brings Log Management to Kubernetes Clusters
As IT organizations embrace Kubernetes to deploy containerized applications, they are discovering a need for tools to manage a new type of cluster that is proliferating rapidly across the enterprise. To address ...
Why You Should Incorporate AIOps Into Your Container Strategy
If you’ve been paying attention to container adoption in recent years, you’ve witnessed its steady growth. According to a report from Diamanti, 44 percent of the surveyed IT leaders plan to switch ...
VMware Acquires Heptio to Add Kubernetes Expertise
VMware announced it is acquiring Heptio as part of an ongoing effort to extend its reach into clusters based on Kubernetes. Announced at VMworld Europe 2018 conference, the acquisition adds several Kubernetes ...
Tripwire Adds Container Configuration Assessment Service
Tripwire has extended a set of DevOps tools for managing and securing applications based on containers to include a Docker container configuration assessment capability. Tim Erlin, vice president of product management and ...
