IT as Code
Authentication in Serverless Apps—What Are the Options?
Serverless applications are growing in popularity among DevOps engineers. They provide a convenient, predictable way to run simple processes like CI/CD builds or automation scripts with no need to stand up infrastructure ...
FinOps Cloud Cost Optimization via Governance-as-Code
Cloud implementations continue to grow in scope and complexity. Too often, this expansion also means costs keep spiraling out of control. In this article, we’ll examine why the emerging practice of cloud ...
HashiCorp Previews Updates to Consul Service Mesh
During an online HashiConf Global conference, HashiCorp today made available a beta of an update to its open source Consul service mesh for virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters that makes it possible ...
Pulumi Adds Registry to Share Secure IaC Code
Pulumi this week added a public registry to its portfolio that makes it easier to discover packages that have been created using its tools to manage infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Joe Duffy, Pulumi CEO, ...
A Blueprint for Securing Software Development
Software development has changed dramatically in recent years, as technologies like DevOps, application containers, and cloud-native transform how software is built and distributed. Unfortunately, attackers have been paying close attention to these ...
Trust in Cloud Providers is a Developer Issue
Earlier this summer, we worked with ClearPath Strategies to ask developers about the level of trust they have in their various cloud service providers. What we learned spoke volumes: While developers’ familiarity ...
Energy Efficiency and the Data Center
The IT industry has historically been a leader in the ongoing race to reduce CO2 emissions. Reducing emissions is good for the environment and for the corporate bottom line. The data center ...
CNCF Adopts Meshery to Advance Service Mesh Management
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced this week during the ServiceMeshCon/KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference that Meshery, a service mesh management plane created by Layer5, has become a sandbox-level project. In addition, ...
Top 5 Must-Haves for IaC Automation Tools
These days, there are a lot of different DevOps tools to accomplish a lot of different jobs. Almost daily another startup comes out with a new and innovative product or a newer ...
The Inevitability of Multi-Cloud-Native Apps
We all know the story: Enterprises moved to the cloud. They learned about data center virtualization and multi-tenancy and self-service developer provisioning. Along came Kubernetes, and they moved to cloud-native, where they ...
Mastering API Gateways for the Modern Cloud-Native Enterprise
As modern enterprises continue migrating to the cloud and the need for connected applications and devices dramatically increases, API-driven architectures are being widely adopted. In addition to the convenience of being able ...
LF Networking (LFN) Adds to Open Source Portfolio
At the online Open Networking & Edge Summit + Kubernetes on Edge Day event LF Networking (LFN), an arm of the Linux Foundation focused on networking, today added several projects that promise ...

