APIs

OpenAPI: The Key to Cloud-Native Success?
Web APIs are the glue between modern connected software, enabling applications to expose data and functionality to the outside world. They’ve become common within B2B partner models and even public monetization strategies ...

The Growing Appreciation for Service Mesh
A Buoyant survey published today finds a third (33%) of respondents have either deployed a service mesh in a production environment or are close to completing deployment. Another 62% say they are ...

To Protect Cloud-Native APIs, Avoid Overly Permissive States
APIs are now foundational to how modern applications are built: Using microservices and containers and running on platforms like Kubernetes. They’re the standard mechanism to integrate internal components or expose functionality to ...

Red Hat Extends OpenShift Platform Plus Environment
Red Hat today furthered its efforts to provide a complete curated Kubernetes environment with an update to its Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus offering that provides a raft of additional management and ...

Equinix Metal Adds Cluster API to Tinkerbell Project
Equinix Metal today announced the addition of an application programming interface (API) for provisioning clusters on bare-metal servers to the Tinkerbell open source project. Tinkerbell is a bare-metal provisioning engine used to ...

D2iQ Allies With Kong to Manage APIs on K8s Clusters
D2iQ has allied with Kong Inc. to make it simpler to provision and manage a service connectivity platform running on a Kubernetes cluster. Kong Inc. has been making a case for a ...

Majority of Microservices Environments Adopt Service Mesh
In the past, we’ve reviewed the efficacy of service mesh and considered whether it’s mature enough for adoption. Others have suggested using service mesh to control both east-west and north-south traffic. Now, ...

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 ...

CNCF Launches Integrated API Gateway and Ingress Controller Project
The technical oversight committee for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today that an emissary-ingress gateway for application programming interfaces (APIs) and an ingress controller designed to run natively on Kubernetes, ...

As API Threats Multiply, Cybersecurity Lags
Things are heating up for APIs. API-based startups are catching the eye of investors. Forbes recently called the API economy the “next big thing.” But as they multiply, so do security threats ...