News

Managing Virtual Containers

• 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.