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Managing Virtual Containers

• 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.

• August 03, 2018 03 Aug'18

  IT pros debate upstream vs. packaged Kubernetes implementations

  As IT vendors race to package Kubernetes implementations, their fiercest competition is not from other vendors, but from pure upstream code and DIY container orchestration projects.

• July 19, 2018 19 Jul'18

  GCP Marketplace beats AWS, Azure to Kubernetes app store

  Google is the first major public cloud provider to sell prepackaged apps for container orchestration clusters, but expect AWS and Azure to follow quickly with Kubernetes marketplaces of their own.

• July 19, 2018 19 Jul'18

  Container security emerges in IT products enterprises know and trust

  Established IT security vendors add containers to their repertoire, and IT pros must decide between trusted platform integration and the latest features from startups.

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Docker roadmap champions multi-cloud container management

  Docker Enterprise Edition will roll out multi-cloud container management in beta later in 2018 and go head-to-head with Red Hat OpenShift and Rancher.

• May 30, 2018 30 May'18

  Chef Habitat early adopters sing app automation praises

  Chef Habitat can ease application deployments and updates, and ensure high availability, but there's still a lot of confusion among IT pros about precisely where it fits in the DevOps toolchain.

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  APM strikes back in Kubernetes monitoring wars

  New Relic and AppDynamics up the ante on Prometheus with dashboards that display Kubernetes time-series data, and monitoring alerts that sync with IT automation tools.

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform adds CoreOS automation

  Red Hat plans to swiftly integrate technology recently acquired from CoreOS into its current product line, but the CoreOS name will stick around.

• May 04, 2018 04 May'18

  Cisco and CoreOS Kubernetes integrations swell IT buyer choices

  Cisco and CoreOS added to a growing number of Kubernetes integration options, prompting enterprise IT buyers to consider whether they should rely on one vendor or take on heavy lifting themselves.