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• 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 16, 2018 16 Nov'18

  AWS Lambda monitoring goes mainstream with New Relic beta

  New Relic users and prospects will investigate AWS Lambda monitoring features released in private beta, as serverless usage filters in to enterprise IT shops.

• 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 09, 2018 09 Nov'18

  Terraform orchestration matures as multi-cloud lingua franca

  Terraform offers cloud-agnostic infrastructure as code to highly skilled DevOps pros, and its latest release looks to extend its appeal beyond early adopters.

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• 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.

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  HashiCorp Vault maturity prompts strategy speculation

  HashiCorp is valued at $1.9 billion for its IT management software, such as Vault 1.0, and the IBM-Red Hat merger has set off speculation about the firm's future.

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  Grow rapidly into a continuous delivery pipeline

  IT organizations that undertake continuous delivery and deployment initiatives must find strategies to enable that nonstop rush into production without any space for massive or prolonged user-facing problems.

• 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 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Chef InSpec 3.0 horns in on Terraform territory

  Chef InSpec 3.0 can scan Terraform infrastructure-as-code files for security and compliance gaps, which knocked HashiCorp Sentinel off the evaluation list at Chef customer Pacific Life.

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  SRE model requires technical, organizational optimization skills

  Practitioners categorize SRE job descriptions two ways -- by distributed systems architecture design that evolves rapidly, and also by the ability to optimize human workflows.

• 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.