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Managing Virtual Containers

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  Kubernetes complicates Cloud Foundry platform development

  The Cloud Foundry community has begun to port its developer interface onto Kubernetes infrastructure, but there are multiple approaches to sort out amid the transition.

• June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20

  HashiCorp Consul 1.8 aims to smooth service mesh transition

  HashiCorp Consul users are mulling how to extend service discovery into service mesh. The vendor has added gateway support to ease this transition.

• June 22, 2020 22 Jun'20

  HashiCorp shops hope new Consul service comes at lower cost

  Multi-cloud hosted services planned for HashiCorp products, including Consul, Vault and Nomad, would reduce IT ops overhead, users say, but prices must be affordable.

• May 21, 2020 21 May'20

  IT pros clamor for Kubernetes multi-cloud deployment API

  Enterprise IT pros who want a standard approach to Kubernetes multi-cloud deployment say the Cluster API project shows promise, but it needs work to be production-ready.

• May 21, 2020 21 May'20

  Linux kernel utility could solve Kubernetes networking woes

  Linux kernel utility eBPF gets new life as a more effective means to scale Kubernetes networking than native Kubernetes tools, and in some cases, service mesh.

• May 20, 2020 20 May'20

  Fintech firms prove IT compliance via security automation

  Security automation tools proved useful for two highly regulated fintech firms, that use them to protect cloud-native infrastructure and demonstrate their security to auditors.

• May 07, 2020 07 May'20

  VMware Tanzu beta project melds Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes

  VMware Tanzu Application Service for Kubernetes, now in public beta, intrigues PKS users by combining Kubernetes infrastructure components behind a Cloud Foundry developer interface.

• April 29, 2020 29 Apr'20

  Red Hat OpenShift to inject IBM Kubernetes management IP

  IBM and Red Hat have begun to blend both business priorities and software code, including a forthcoming multi-cluster Kubernetes management tool for OpenShift users.

• April 27, 2020 27 Apr'20

  IT compliance-as-code tool makes Kubernetes security inroads

  Open Policy Agent has turned heads among IT shops for Kubernetes compliance as code, and its commercial backer looks to capitalize on that momentum with new enterprise features.

• April 09, 2020 09 Apr'20

  HashiCorp Vault secrets manager ups Enterprise edition value

  HashiCorp Vault 1.4 sweetens the deal for users of the paid Enterprise version, which had been subject to questions about differentiation from the free version in the past.

• April 08, 2020 08 Apr'20

  Foundation exec seeks Cloud Foundry vs. Kubernetes detente

  New Cloud Foundry Foundation Executive Director Chip Childers plans to steer the community into the next phase of cooperation with Kubernetes, Knative, Istio and more.

• March 31, 2020 31 Mar'20

  Rancher plots enterprise Kubernetes management takeover

  Flush with funding, Rancher hopes to win deals away from major IT software vendors such as VMware as enterprises seek help with Kubernetes management.

• March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20

  HashiCorp Nomad vs. Kubernetes matchup intensifies with 0.11

  HashiCorp Nomad may not overtake Kubernetes but could capture broader enterprise attention with container-like orchestration features for legacy apps in VMs.

• March 12, 2020 12 Mar'20

  AWS Bottlerocket container OS locks down hosts

  AWS Bottlerocket puts the cloud giant's spin on the container OS, and container host security, but the company will have to overcome a generally poor reputation in the open source world.

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  Istio service mesh revamp may ease use, or sow confusion

  Istio 1.5 reworks a microservices-based control plane into a monolith as the service mesh project seeks to simplify management and improve performance.

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  Biometrics firm fights monitoring overload with log analytics

  Log analytics tools have become more popular as enterprise IT pros contend with complex, continuous microservices application deployments at scale.

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  Top 5 container software trends to watch in 2020

  Container software, namely Kubernetes, has become a staple of modern enterprise IT infrastructure -- here's what's coming next for the technology in 2020 and beyond.

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Kubernetes edge computing takes shape on container frontier

  Kubernetes at the edge has emerged as an early stage trend among enterprises that want to push the boundaries of software automation.

• February 25, 2020 25 Feb'20

  Mirantis marshals reinforcements for Kubernetes management

  Mirantis adds engineering staff and revives Docker Swarm as it plans to do battle in container orchestration against Red Hat, Pivotal and Docker itself.

• February 13, 2020 13 Feb'20

  Ad firm gets Kubernetes management boost from Agile Stacks

  With a small staff of engineers responsible for all of IT, a digital advertising firm needed help to smooth out the learning curve as it migrated from Mesosphere to Kubernetes.

• February 12, 2020 12 Feb'20

  Grafana Loki users reap log data savings, with tradeoffs

  Grafana Loki won't replace advanced log analytics tools, but it may be a boon for shops that want to collect massive amounts of log data for troubleshooting applications.

• February 07, 2020 07 Feb'20

  Retail software firm takes broad view of Kubernetes security

  Kubernetes platform security has supplanted container-level security for enterprises such as retail software vendor Aptos as they deploy microservices in production.

• February 07, 2020 07 Feb'20

  Dynatrace deepens AIOps ties with Kubernetes monitoring

  Dynatrace has expanded the number of metrics it can feed into its Davis AIOps engine from Kubernetes infrastructure, thereby enhancing autoremediation features for container workloads.

• January 28, 2020 28 Jan'20

  Cisco folds AppDynamics AIOps into its infrastructure tools

  Cisco shops might welcome new integrations between AppDynamics AIOps tools and Cisco Intersight management software, but whether they will draw in other users is uncertain.

• January 14, 2020 14 Jan'20

  Kubernetes security gets an assist with bug bounty program

  The Kubernetes Security Product Group will outsource bug triage to HackerOne under a new bug bounty program that will offer rewards for bug reports up to $10,000.

• December 18, 2019 18 Dec'19

  New Kubernetes security tools abound as container deployments grow

  As Kubernetes use expands in production, enterprises have a number of IT security tools to choose from for centralized, policy-based control over container clusters.

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Kubernetes Helm Tiller is dead, and IT pros rejoice

  The latest version of the Kubernetes Helm package manager promises better security and stability in version 3, which removes the Tiller server component from Helm's architecture.

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  D2iQ latest to seek Kubernetes management niche

  D2iQ's CTO says it will use its enterprise experience with Apache Mesos container orchestration and big data apps such as Kafka to compete in a crowded market for Kubernetes management.

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Docker Enterprise spun off to Mirantis, company restructures

  In an unexpected move, Docker sells off its Docker Enterprise business -- including customer support -- to Mirantis and refocuses on Docker Hub and Docker Desktop.

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  Aqua Security buys CloudSploit, expands into cloud security

  Amid consolidation and chaos in the cloud security market, Aqua snaps up CloudSploit and sets the stage for increased competition with traditional IT security vendors.

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  Microservices security calls for zero-trust, data classification

  Sanity in a zero-trust world for microservices security calls for IT teams to prioritize the assets they must protect, and that starts with data classification.

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  JASK buy may boost security analytics in Sumo Logic SIEM

  Sumo Logic has acquired JASK, an automated SOC that will be most useful for security analytics and alert reduction features within Sumo Logic's SIEM.

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  Enterprise IT weighs pros and cons of multi-cloud management

  IT ops pros are getting used to multi-cloud management, especially for disaster recovery, but moving from cloud to cloud via container portability is still rare.

• October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19

  Red Hat OpenShift Tekton pipelines reflect strategic platform focus

  OpenShift and its competitors now offer enterprises soup-to-nuts DevOps platforms, rather than simple Kubernetes management tools, that are based on different points of strategic lock-in.

• October 10, 2019 10 Oct'19

  Kubernetes on Windows nodes hits GA in Rancher, Amazon EKS

  Windows host support in Kubernetes reached a milestone with general availability from container management vendors, which makes containers more accessible for legacy apps.

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  Google sparks open source unrest over Knative, Istio

  Google is keeping its Knative and Istio projects close to the vest, which could limit their reach long term, early adopters say.

• October 07, 2019 07 Oct'19

  Docker Desktop asset, fiscal stress prompt acquisition buzz

  Docker has tried to differentiate itself as a Kubernetes competitor, but amid reports of financial headwinds, it should return to its roots in the developer desktop, analysts say.

• September 13, 2019 13 Sep'19

  Google Cloud tackles Spark on Kubernetes

  Google Cloud Dataproc is the first major cloud provider to integrate Apache Spark with Kubernetes as a managed service, but work remains to better link the two projects upstream.

• September 11, 2019 11 Sep'19

  HashiCorp Consul plays to multi-platform strength with Azure

  HashiCorp's Consul service mesh will be offered as a hosted service on Microsoft Azure, where it can link container clusters along with VMs in multiple regions.

• August 28, 2019 28 Aug'19

  Knative serverless Kubernetes bypasses FaaS to revive PaaS

  Knative's emerging claim to fame is that it can turn Kubernetes into a next-gen platform as a service with both a Heroku-like developer experience and deep infrastructure control.

• August 22, 2019 22 Aug'19

  Istio service mesh hits OpenShift GA, but upgrades are slow

  Istio service mesh, Kiali and Jaeger are generally available for Red Hat OpenShift 4, but it will be some time before users are ready for the latest version of the platform.

• August 22, 2019 22 Aug'19

  Splunk pricing worries some users amid SignalFx monitoring buy

  Splunk wants to collect more data via SignalFx, but some users wonder how much it will cost to keep up with the proliferation of logs and metrics in the age of cloud monitoring.

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  Jenkins X gears up for SaaS version, GitOps standards

  With key maturity milestones behind them, the maintainers of Jenkins X prepare a SaaS version, and plan to collaborate with Google's Tekton and Netflix's Spinnaker.

• August 08, 2019 08 Aug'19

  Mesosphere's Kubernetes pivot sets stage for IT vendor attrition

  Mesosphere becomes D2iQ, and affirms that Kubernetes is eating the world. Is IT entering a golden age of interoperability, or on the verge of mass consolidation?

• July 25, 2019 25 Jul'19

  Kubernetes authentication project wrestles with migration problems

  GKE users like the Workload Identity feature for Kubernetes authentication with GCP services, but similar improvements to core cluster security present a potential market-wide migration headache.

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  Compliance-as-code tool hits DevSecOps sweet spot for MSP

  There are almost as many tools to assist with DevSecOps as there are definitions for the term – how one managed service provider that serves federal agencies chose a compliance-as-code vendor.

• July 19, 2019 19 Jul'19

  Kubernetes policy project takes enterprise IT by storm

  A Kubernetes-friendly compliance as code project hosted by the CNCF has caught on among large enterprises in the first half of 2019, largely through word of mouth.

• July 17, 2019 17 Jul'19

  Container security improves overall enterprise IT posture

  Enterprise IT pros worried about security when containers were first introduced, but as containers are put into production, they can actually present ways to tighten security practices.

• July 02, 2019 02 Jul'19

  Kubernetes security tool gives IT a leg up on DevSecOps

  An emerging real estate firm tasked with DevSecOps sought an assist from startup Alcide, which bakes Kubernetes security best practices into its software.

• June 20, 2019 20 Jun'19

  IT pros brace for wave of M&A in microservices security

  Microservices and DevOps have made IT security a shared responsibility among enterprise stakeholders, and experts expect this shift to prompt mass consolidation among vendors.

• June 20, 2019 20 Jun'19

  Alaska Airlines charts course for DevOps security

  As Alaska Airlines plots a flight path to a hybrid cloud infrastructure, it will navigate with an automated DevOps security tool that spans multiple IT environments.

• June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19

  UPS delivers Agile plan for legacy application modernization

  As UPS moved its package-tracking system from mainframe to open systems, it drew on the old adage about how to eat an elephant: one small bite at a time.

• May 31, 2019 31 May'19

  Palo Alto Networks buys Twistlock, PureSec for container security

  Palo Alto Networks snaps up Twistlock and PureSec to broaden its cloud security portfolio and give enterprise IT shops more options for container and serverless security.

• May 21, 2019 21 May'19

  GKE, Azure roll out Windows Kubernetes support

  Cloud service providers rolled out Windows Kubernetes support this week, which may take some of the burden of Linux container management requirements out of the hands of Microsoft-only shops.

• May 10, 2019 10 May'19

  OpenShift shops chart a course for advanced IT automation

  IT teams tackled containerization, developer self-service platforms and infrastructure provisioning automation in 2018. So, what's next?

• May 08, 2019 08 May'19

  OpenShift architecture bakes in CoreOS Operator automation

  OpenShift 4.1 promises easier container management for IT ops pros, but getting there from OpenShift 3 could be tricky for enterprises with large deployments.

• May 08, 2019 08 May'19

  OpenShift-Azure ties deepen as IT sets sights on multi-cloud

  Enterprises will consider an OpenShift managed service on Azure as part of a multi-cloud strategy, but Kubernetes won't necessarily make workloads cloud-agnostic.

• May 02, 2019 02 May'19

  Docker Enterprise pricing shake-up leaves unanswered questions

  IT pros begin to evaluate the long-term budget implications of a significant change to the Docker Enterprise pricing scheme.

• April 23, 2019 23 Apr'19

  Rancher's Kubernetes updates boost security, UI performance

  Enterprise IT pros expect changes to Rancher's Kubernetes management tools to bolster security configuration and UI performance.

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  Cloud Foundry PaaS undergoes seismic shifts as IT evolves

  Cloud Foundry undergoes drastic changes as infrastructure automation technology develops, to the point where some industry experts see more erosion than evolution.

• April 08, 2019 08 Apr'19

  Users forge ahead with Cloud Foundry-Kubernetes integration

  Complementary roles for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes are clear to IT pros, and the community plans to knit the two more closely together with the Eirini project.

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  Kubernetes for Windows hits GA, with limitations

  Kubernetes support for Windows nodes was declared stable in Kubernetes 1.14, but extensive fine print remains.

• March 22, 2019 22 Mar'19

  Kubernetes management for 'Minecraft' has enterprise IT traits

  What do 'Minecraft' servers and enterprise databases have in common? In the realm of Kubernetes management, more than you might think.

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  F5-Nginx deal reflects mainstream trend toward microservices

  F5 snaps up Nginx for cloud-native app support, and analysts predict a microservices gold rush as modern application architectures catch on in enterprise IT shops.

• March 05, 2019 05 Mar'19

  Container security tools turn heads with expansion to hosts

  Vendors that sell container security tools now face off against traditional security tool providers, as both vie for the attention of IT pros who look to fortify their cloud-native infrastructure.

• February 28, 2019 28 Feb'19

  Istio security drives Auto Trader UK move to GKE

  The U.K.'s largest online automotive marketplace put Istio security features in place before it adopted containers and GKE, rather than the other way around.

• February 26, 2019 26 Feb'19

  VMware PKS adds Heptio IP, boosts container street cred

  VMware adds bare-metal Kubernetes and an elite support squad from Heptio, but it's unlikely to get widespread interest with bespoke container orchestration on premises.

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  Container security tools pitch service mesh integrations

  Container defense in depth is a hot topic, and some IT pros approach it with a combination of third-party container security tools and service mesh security features.

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  Linkerd vs. Istio fray dominates service mesh battle

  Linkerd's maintainers admit it has a narrower range of features than buzz machine Istio. But after failed attempts to set up Istio, some early adopters believe less is more.

• February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19

  Container security vulnerability prompts call to patch runC

  The discovery of a container utility flaw means IT pros must patch most container runtimes, as well as practice defense in depth and beware of strangers with sketchy container images.

• February 08, 2019 08 Feb'19

  Rancher's Kubernetes multi-cluster app support fuels IT debate

  To federate or not to federate cloud-native apps? As Kubernetes becomes ubiquitous, that is the question that more IT shops must answer.

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  AthenaHealth picks SignalFx to smooth public cloud monitoring

  IT monitoring through SignalFx's Prometheus and AWS CloudWatch integrations helps AthenaHealth manage multiple public cloud environments from a central interface.

• January 21, 2019 21 Jan'19

  VMware-Heptio roadmap to refine enterprise Kubernetes

  Heptio founder Craig McLuckie, now VP of R&D at VMware following a 2018 merger, anticipates hard work ahead to get enterprises to adopt Kubernetes in their production environments.

• January 17, 2019 17 Jan'19

  VMware and Pivotal put NSX spin on Kubernetes security

  VMware and Pivotal mix NSX network segmentation into PKS 1.3 to appeal to large, advanced users of vSphere and Kubernetes who manage multi-tenant container clusters.

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  Latest Kubernetes monitoring, AIOps features trace DevOps trends

  It won't be long before Kubernetes and AIOps support are standard features among familiar DevOps monitoring tools, which will ease the learning curve for cloud-native infrastructure.

• December 28, 2018 28 Dec'18

  Major acquisitions, Kubernetes evolution top IT news in 2018

  In the second half of 2018, IT industry vendors and their users worked to tame Kubernetes and containers, and inject open source innovation into tried-and-true enterprise IT.

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  IT industry trends home in on containers, AIOps and CI/CD

  IT ops pros should be on the lookout for enterprise-wide production container deployments, real-world AIOps usage and new approaches to CI/CD in 2019.

• December 14, 2018 14 Dec'18

  Istio service mesh tradeoffs prompt caution among IT pros

  Istio can boost the security and observability of Kubernetes environments, but some IT pros question whether the perks are worth a steep learning curve.

• December 14, 2018 14 Dec'18

  Knative project stokes interest in event-driven IT ops

  The Knative project is nascent, but Kubernetes users said they believe it could facilitate the next generation of IT infrastructure management.

• December 13, 2018 13 Dec'18

  Enterprise SREs guide devs through Kubernetes in production

  Behind most enterprise developers that own and operate the services they create stands a platform engineering team that's teed up Kubernetes in its most manageable form.

• December 13, 2018 13 Dec'18

  Kubernetes 1.13 stabilizes storage, but Windows GA delayed

  IT pros with Kubernetes in production welcomed stable releases of cluster install and container storage utilities in version 1.13, but they'll have to wait for some key features.

• December 11, 2018 11 Dec'18

  Kubernetes security issues raise concerns for enterprise shops

  As Kubernetes enters the enterprise mainstream, it has early adopters abuzz about security issues in the platform and the containers it orchestrates.

• December 04, 2018 04 Dec'18

  Microsoft and Docker CNAB takes aim at distributed computing

  Microsoft and Docker want to push container-like abstraction up the stack with the CNAB open source spec, which has piqued enterprise interest in its early stages.

• December 04, 2018 04 Dec'18

  Kubernetes security vulnerability reveals fractured market

  Enterprises that pay for Kubernetes support will respond differently to this week's critical security vulnerability than lean DevOps teams that use upstream distributions.

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  Istio service mesh vies for lead in microservices market

  Istio's integration into Google Cloud will give it momentum, but service mesh competition remains fierce, as HashiCorp Consul makes strong inroads with early adopters.

• November 20, 2018 20 Nov'18

  Kibana monitoring apps zoom in on Kubernetes infrastructure

  A new set of time-series Kubernetes infrastructure monitoring and APM tools in version 6.5 of Elastic Stack take their place among many choices for IT pros.

• November 15, 2018 15 Nov'18

  Container security tools push multi-cloud closer to reality

  Container security tools, such as StackRox and Aqua Security, offer DevOps shops that want multi-cloud portability a centralized way to reduce the risk of complex infrastructures.

• November 09, 2018 09 Nov'18

  Docker on Windows Server helps legacy apps, with caveats

  Windows-only Docker Enterprise Edition prospects struggle with Linux requirements and a shift to a container-first mindset as they plan to modernize legacy Microsoft applications.

• November 07, 2018 07 Nov'18

  Kubernetes on VMware gains a lifeline with Heptio acquisition

  VMware's Heptio buy brings it Kubernetes chops that will help it make a multi-cloud bid, but it will struggle to raise its profile in open source container management, industry watchers predict.

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  IBM Red Hat acquisition roils open source container management

  IBM agreed to buy Red Hat with Kubernetes in mind for its multi-cloud management strategy, and it'll have far-reaching implications for the open source container management community, especially Cloud Foundry.

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Nomad vs. Kubernetes talk prompts HashiCorp managed service plan

  HashiCorp's founders say Nomad and Kubernetes are not mutually exclusive, but the company will launch a Nomad managed service to match cloud providers' turnkey Kubernetes services.

• October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

  IT pros shore up Prometheus monitoring via third-party tools

  Upstream Prometheus monitoring isn't ready for prime time in enterprise environments, but it gets by with a little help from its friends, such as Sysdig and Rancher Labs.

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Netflix Spinnaker pipelines tighten bond with Kubernetes

  The Netflix- and Google-led Spinnaker continuous deployment software project has added enterprise appeal with revamped Kubernetes integration.

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  New Relic acquisition of CoScale boosts Kubernetes prowess

  Kubernetes monitoring is all the rage, and New Relic's CoScale buy gives it an edge in an increasingly noisy market for container monitoring tools.

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  Kubernetes TLS tweaks whet user appetite for easier management

  Kubernetes TLS bootstrap improvements in version 1.12 tackle container management complexity, and users hope there's more where that came from.

• September 20, 2018 20 Sep'18

  Jenkins on Kubernetes is promising, but integration needs work

  Jenkins and Kubernetes are a natural fit for automated application development and delivery, and the open source community has plans to improve how Jenkins runs on containers.

• September 13, 2018 13 Sep'18

  IT experts exchange container security tips and caveats

  Real-world container security requires users to dig in to the finer points of container, host, Kubernetes and application configurations.

• August 30, 2018 30 Aug'18

  Third-party Kubernetes tools hone performance for database containerization

  Kubernetes tools look to carve out a market niche in database containerization with performance monitoring and quality-of-service management features.

• August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18

  Kubernetes community takes over massive Google test bed

  Google will donate $9 million in GCP resources and undergo a three-year handoff process to put a massive Kubernetes test bed under CNCF control. Users wonder, what happens next.

• August 27, 2018 27 Aug'18

  Free Kubernetes security tools broaden enterprise choices

  Kubernetes security tools give enterprise IT shops strategic approaches to container security that go beyond shoring up individual container instances.