Grafana Labs Adds On-Premises Observability Platform
Grafana Labs announced today the availability of a unified Grafana Enterprise Stack that enables IT teams to deploy a curated observability platform, based on open source tools such as Prometheus, in their own on-premises IT environment. Tom Wilkie, vice president of product for Grafana Labs, said Grafana Enterprise Stack, in addition to providing a version […]
HashiCorp Expands Managed Services Offerings
HashiCorp today announced the general availability of its Consul service mesh as a managed service on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) along with a beta release of a managed instance of HCP Vault, a secrets management platform, on HCP. HCP is currently hosted on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform, on which the company is […]
ARMO Aims to Simplify Microservices Security
ARMO this week emerged from stealth to launch a platform to secure cloud-native workloads and improve visibility. The ARMO Workload Fabric technology attaches code within the memory invoked by a microservice to enable cybersecurity policies to be applied via a cloud service. Company CEO Shauli Rozen said the ARMO Workload Fabric is designed to enable […]
A Security Vulnerability Management Guide
Living in a container-native world is not easy. Containers have a reputation for being a point of entry for security vulnerabilities for many organizations. In 2015, according to a research paper, over 40% of Docker images distributed through Docker Hub had high-risk vulnerabilities; at that time there were more than 95,000 container images hosted on […]
Windows Sandbox and Hypervisor-Based Isolation
Completely securing the endpoint is hard. Securing it without sacrificing user productivity is even harder. Think of a modern laptop running a Windows 10 OS, for example. The OS consists of millions of potentially vulnerable lines of code. It has many legacy components written with old security standards in mind. The kernel is probably executing […]
7 Trends Influencing DevOps and DevSecOps Adoption
Enterprise technology adoption trends can be broadly categorized under three pillars: infrastructure, architecture and technology. Let’s explore what these trends are and how they influence DevOps and DevSecOps adoption in tech corporations worldwide. Trends in Architecture In computing, architecture is the collection of protocols encompassing the utility, structure and execution of software applications. Architecture defines […]
Runtime Security and Incident Response with Loris Degioanni
By adopting DevOps, Kubernetes and containers you can accelerate innovation and deliver a better experience for customers and employees. While Kubernetes adoption simplifies application deployment, security needs to adapt and be cloud-first, open and frictionless as a new set of complexities may surface. Check out this interview with Sysdig Founder and CTO Loris Degioanni to […]
Operationalizing Kubernetes Virtual Summit Speaker Spotlight: James Strachan, Liz Rice, Priyanka Sharma and Tim Hockin
The Operationalizing Kubernetes Virtual Summit will bring together Kubernetes and cloud-native community members for a unique learning experience focused on the tools and best practices you need in order to successfully secure and manage Kubernetes. Presented in a virtual reality environment, the event will take place on Oct. 1, at 10 a.m. EDT. The […]
Decoding the Self-Healing Kubernetes
A business application that fails to operate 24/7 would be considered inefficient in the market. The idea is that applications run uninterrupted, irrespective of a technical glitch, feature update or a natural disaster. In today’s heterogeneous environment where infrastructure is intricately layered, a continuous workflow of application is possible via self-healing. Kubernetes, which is a […]
Catch Emerging Security Risks Earlier by Leveraging Kubernetes Audit Logs
When a Kubernetes deployment suffers a security breach, it can be difficult for security teams to diagnose and identify the source of the intrusion and its impact. Each Kubernetes cluster may host multiple applications, and each application may be composed of dozens or even hundreds of interacting microservices deployed as pods. The complex and dynamic […]
Top Six Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes and Docker
Kubernetes and Docker are two of the most commonly heard buzzwords in modern DevOps conversations. Docker is a tool that enables you to containerize and run your applications, and Kubernetes provides you with a platform to orchestrate or manage these containers—since managing thousands of containers manually using the Docker CLI would be a practical nightmare. […]
Service Meshes: Improving Security, Delivery and Availability
Containerized microservices are taking over the software world. These services provide developers a way to quickly create and deploy cloud-native applications. However, containers aren’t perfect. Orchestrating and managing container deployments can be a serious challenge. To help ease this challenge, service meshes were developed. In this article, you’ll learn about service meshes components and architecture […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: SUSE Sets DevOps Course
There was a time when SUSE was considered to be the second-biggest force driving the adoption of Linux in the enterprise, after Red Hat. Then came an odyssey to rival any epic written by Homer. A few short years after moving its corporate headquarters from Germany to Oakland, California, the company was sold to Novell, […]
Breaking Up and Making Up: Composable Persistent Storage for Kubernetes
Kubernetes is rapidly emerging as the standard for application management in the data center. Kubernetes defines applications in a container model for deployment and delivers most of the software-as-a-service features of virtualized infrastructure at a lower cost and with less performance degradation. In this article we’ll cover the intersection of Kubernetes and scale-out data-intensive applications, […]
A New Paradigm in Container Security with Service Mesh
Containers have been around for some time, but only recently has the technology become mature enough for large enterprises to adopt it both on-prem and in the cloud. The obvious benefits for developers include the ability to dramatically reduce the time to production and the ability to lower the operational burden. This is further supported […]
The Role of Containers in Business Transformation
Containers hold new promise for business and digital transformation. Yet many differences exist between monitoring containers and monitoring other elements of infrastructure, such as VMs, storage, memory and compute. Understanding those differences is vital for ITOps managers as they navigate their businesses’ digital transformation. Interestingly, the differences are as much technical as they are organizational. […]
Survey: IT Striking Balance Between Innovation, Reliability
When it comes to managing IT, most DevOps teams are locked in an eternal struggle to balance innovation with reliability. There’s always a keen interest in being able to take advantage of the latest and greatest IT platform. However, new IT platforms don’t achieve the level of maturity required to build and deploy mission-critical applications […]
Kubernetes and Service Mesh With StackRox
DevOps and Kubernetes enable organizations to “go with security,” adding security to the code instead of on top of it. In other words, security is built-in rather than bolted on. This is one of the aspects of security in the DevOps world with a Kubernetes system that Ali Golshan, co-founder and CTO of StackRox, explained […]
DevOps Chat: Holistic Kubernetes and Cloud-Native App Security, With StackRox
More than ever, application security is a top priority. Beyond secure coding practices, a holistic app security strategy addresses the full application and infrastructure stack. This includes containers, microservices, orchestration, infrastructure software and the cloud. Bolting on the next security tool may not be the answer. Kamal Shah, StackRox CEO, joins us on this DevOps […]
The New Era of Kubernetes, With StackRox
Orchestrators are becoming the operating systems of cloud for the future. Which one do you think has become the dominant one? Ali Golshan, co-founder and CTO of StackRox, placed his bet on Kubernetes right from the start. StackRox is a Kubernetes-native security platform that helps DevOps and security teams operationalize security, providing richer context, native […]
ASF Moves OpenWhisk Serverless Computing Forward
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced today that the OpenWhisk serverless computing framework has now become a high-level open source project. Matt Rutkowski, CTO for serverless technologies and advocacy for IBM, said with this announcement, organizations looking to implement an open source serverless computing framework on-premises or in a public cloud now can have confidence […]
WSO2 Advances Microservices Gateway
At the Open Source and Software Development Conference (OSCON), WSO2 this week announced it has updated an open source microservices gateway to make it possible to expose multiple microservices through a single application programming interface (API). Additionally, version 3.0 of the WSO2 API Microgateway now includes the ability to automatically discover microservices and transform legacy […]
Growing Pains for Containers, Data Centers Call for Better Management
Containers have taken the tech community by storm with their ability to drive agile and effective innovation. Compared to the rigid nature of virtual machines, it’s no wonder developers and IT teams have flocked to containers and their flexibility. By dropping the strict hardware focus of virtual machines, containers are allowing teams to surface innovation […]