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• January 29, 2021 29 Jan'21

  NIST drafts service mesh guidance for DevSecOps

  A new NIST special publication shows how a service mesh can enhance access control for DevSecOps shops, but the network architecture hasn't gained widespread deployment.

• January 27, 2021 27 Jan'21

  Rancher Longhorn hones Kubernetes storage for edge computing

  Kubernetes storage products such as Rancher Longhorn target edge computing environments, as adoption of the trend creates a fresh opportunity for container infrastructure.

• January 25, 2021 25 Jan'21

  Enterprises gear up for surge in cloud security M&A

  Users look forward to benefits and brace for potential risks as experts say Red Hat's acquisition of StackRox portends major consolidation in cloud security this year.

• January 21, 2021 21 Jan'21

  Flush with funds, rising DevSecOps vendor reveals roadmap

  Lacework has a fresh $525 million to help develop its machine learning-driven DevSecOps product, which integrates into CI/CD pipelines. CEO Dan Hubbard reveals his expansion plans.

• January 06, 2021 06 Jan'21

  GrubHub's infrastructure-as-code feeds pandemic resiliency

  GrubHub SREs fostered more consistent deployment patterns for resources such as DNS and AWS load balancers with a move to self-service infrastructure-as-code tools for DevOps teams last year.

• December 21, 2020 21 Dec'20

  Enterprises reckon with Kubernetes cluster scale

  Kubernetes has landed in enterprise production -- the next task is for it to expand to accommodate very large clusters, as well as many small clusters for multi-cloud and edge computing.

• December 17, 2020 17 Dec'20

  DevSecOps pros struggle with tech changes, top-down mandates

  Upper management's rising interest in DevSecOps raises the stakes for IT pros as they contend with rapidly evolving cloud-native apps.

• December 16, 2020 16 Dec'20

  SolarWinds attack stumps SecOps experts

  An attack on U.S. government agencies via vendor software updates illuminates a SecOps frontier where users must figure out how to reliably evaluate third-party dependencies.

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  Kubernetes security project faces reckoning over beta status

  Kubernetes Pod Security Policies could be marked for deprecation as soon as the next Kubernetes release, in the wake of new limits on the beta phase for components of the platform.

• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  Linkerd service mesh's steady updates outlast Istio's flash

  As service mesh adoption goes mainstream, early adopters of Linkerd say it allowed them to start small and grow in scale and sophistication as needed.

• December 02, 2020 02 Dec'20

  SUSE fuels Rancher's mission to ease Kubernetes deployment

  'It's still way too hard for people to consume Kubernetes.' How Rancher co-founder Sheng Liang, now a SUSE exec, plans to take on that problem, along with Red Hat and VMware.

• December 01, 2020 01 Dec'20

  Amazon EKS, ECS Anywhere broaden hybrid container management

  Amazon EKS users with hybrid cloud infrastructure may see cost savings from a new AWS Kubernetes distro and forthcoming software-only on-premises container services.

• November 25, 2020 25 Nov'20

  Geek gifts 2020: Kits and gadgets for holidays at home

  The holidays in 2020 are sure to be like no other. Our geek experts recommend ways to keep them entertained while keeping their distance.

• November 24, 2020 24 Nov'20

  IT governance must catch up with DevSecOps, experts say

  Government and financial services organizations that practice DevSecOps say IT governance must evolve to keep up through faster, automated control pipelines.

• November 20, 2020 20 Nov'20

  GitOps pros grapple with Kubernetes configuration management

  Configuration management challenges GitOps early adopters, especially at large enterprises with millions of lines of Kubernetes YAML to manage.

• November 18, 2020 18 Nov'20

  Observability standards emerge as Kubernetes matures

  Enterprise IT pros have tackled how to handle Kubernetes deployments. Now, they're relying on open source observability standards to help keep cloud-native apps healthy.

• November 18, 2020 18 Nov'20

  IBM buys observability vendor Instana

  IBM intends to purchase Instana, maker of application monitoring and observability tools, and then couple its technology with the Watson AIOps portfolio.

• November 17, 2020 17 Nov'20

  Puppet sets sights on unified IT automation platform, IPO

  An integrated Puppet IT automation platform that runs on Kubernetes will accompany an IPO for Puppet Labs in 2021, as the company aims to update its image for the cloud-native era.

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Atlassian ITSM challenges ServiceNow with DevOps focus

  Cloud customers of Atlassian's Jira Service Management will get some Opsgenie incident management features included at no cost, as the vendor plans its ITSM expansion.

• October 29, 2020 29 Oct'20

  Observability blitz intensifies with Grafana, AppDynamics

  Grafana and AppDynamics are the latest monitoring vendors to try to capitalize on the hype around observability, as users face more complex choices than ever in this market.

• October 27, 2020 27 Oct'20

  HashiCorp Nomad 1.0 expands monitoring polish, autoscaling

  HashiCorp Nomad has been used in production before its 1.0 release, but its rapid development this year makes it applicable to a wider variety of uses.

• October 23, 2020 23 Oct'20

  HashiCorp Consul Terraform Sync creates coveted connection

  HashiCorp Consul and Terraform can now sync for network infrastructure automation, a sought-after connection some users had previously tried to cobble together themselves.

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  Splunk Observability integrates acquisitions, boosts AIOps

  Splunk opened the product update floodgates this week with a new Observability Suite that integrates recent acquisitions, enhanced AIOps and the purchase of two more companies.

• October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20

  Atlassian cloud shift quickens with Data Center price hikes

  Atlassian's on-premises customer base has expressed alarm at the company's plans to discontinue Server licenses and make major Data Center price increases.

• October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20

  HashiCorp wades into continuous delivery with Waypoint

  HashiCorp launched another new open source project this week, this time a continuous delivery utility called Waypoint, which IT pros hope will simplify DevOps deployments.

• October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20

  Red Hat bolsters Ansible-Kubernetes bond via OpenShift ACM

  Red Hat previewed new ties between its Ansible Automation Platform and OpenShift Kubernetes within its Advanced Cluster Management tool, as container platform competition intensifies.

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  HashiCorp launches Boundary for cloud security

  HashiCorp revealed its first new open source project in five years this week: a cloud security framework for access control called Boundary.

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Service mesh upstarts challenge Istio, Linkerd

  Istio seemed destined for Kubernetes-like dominance in the service mesh market, but recent open source governance drama created an opening for competition from networking vendors.

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  Sumo Logic ships tools for AWS, Kubernetes observability

  Sumo Logic has rolled out AWS and Kubernetes observability tools with automated root cause analysis. Users say they offer easy setup at an affordable price.

• October 07, 2020 07 Oct'20

  Oracle launches Cloud Observability and Management Platform

  Oracle's new Cloud Observability and Management Platform seeks to appeal to customers with complex multi-cloud and on-premises environments.

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  Rancher Kubernetes bolsters security, multi-cloud management

  Rancher Kubernetes stays ahead of competitors in multi-cloud management with version 2.5, but will its innovation and SUSE's backing be enough to fend off Red Hat and VMware?

• September 30, 2020 30 Sep'20

  VMware Tanzu Kubernetes strategy hits integration milestone

  VMware follows competitors in shipping a fully integrated Kubernetes infrastructure package, but vSphere tie-ins and a strong AWS partnership will bolster its enterprise appeal.

• September 29, 2020 29 Sep'20

  VMware buys SaltStack for security, configuration management

  The acquisition of SaltStack will help VMware build event-driven security automation and configuration management into vRealize Automation, as open source Salt gains VMware's backing.

• September 24, 2020 24 Sep'20

  Jenkins CI/CD roadmap plots a path toward GitOps

  Open source Jenkins now has a public roadmap, which shows plans to address user experience issues, at a time when enterprise IT pros favor 'everything as code' to foster GitOps.

• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  CloudBees revises software delivery management plan, pricing

  CloudBees has pledged to roll out software delivery management modules by the end of the year and answered calls to adjust CloudBees CD pricing.

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  Kubernetes on Windows matures, but networking snags remain

  Kubernetes on Windows is viable in production for some users via cloud providers' managed services, but IT pros need more networking and storage maturity for on-prem apps.

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  Mirantis rethinks Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes

  Docker Enterprise users say plans to allow Docker Swarm to run on a Kubernetes back end could provide both ease of use for developers and granular infrastructure control for ops.

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Mirantis rejuvenates Docker Enterprise cloud tools, support

  Docker Enterprise Container Cloud keeps pace with recent trends in Kubernetes management, such as multicluster and multi-cloud support but faces stiff competition.

• September 14, 2020 14 Sep'20

  DevSecOps strategy mimics cloud shared responsibility model

  Real-world DevSecOps centralizes IT security around the CI/CD pipeline but defines separate roles that each IT constituency plays in securing apps and infrastructure.

• September 08, 2020 08 Sep'20

  Progress Software battles legacy rep amid Chef Software buy

  Progress Software, a 40-year-old tech company, will mix Chef products into its portfolio of acquisitions, as both seek to keep up with rapid changes in IT automation.

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  Kubernetes monitoring eases migration, security at scale

  IT pros in high-scale environments have found that moving to Kubernetes-based infrastructure called for a fresh approach to monitoring for performance and security.

• August 28, 2020 28 Aug'20

  How the DevOps model will build the new remote workforce

  What IT pros expect from remote work post-COVID-19, and ways the DevOps model for collaboration and incident response can address its human and technical problems.

• August 21, 2020 21 Aug'20

  Kubernetes security defaults prompt upstream dilemma

  As Kubernetes matures, community maintainers weigh enterprise demand for secure upstream defaults against concerns about sprawl and customizability.

• August 21, 2020 21 Aug'20

  OpenTelemetry aids distributed tracing, Kubernetes monitoring

  OpenTelemetry combines multiple CNCF observability projects, as well as multiple enterprise data collection mechanisms, simplifying Kubernetes monitoring.

• August 19, 2020 19 Aug'20

  GitOps gains momentum among Kubernetes deployment tools

  The growing popularity of Kubernetes GitOps tools reflects increasing cloud-native maturity and complexity among enterprise shops such as American Express.

• August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20

  Slack integrations to form alternate UI for Atlassian tools

  Atlassian plans to make Slack a full alternative interface for its software development and incident response tools, including single sign-on features.

• August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20

  Infrastructure-as-code upstart boosts Kubernetes deployment

  Pulumi has expanded its integrations with Kubernetes deployment tools including OPA, Helm v3 and Kustomize, offering a central collaboration point for DevOps container management.

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Terraform Cloud adds enterprise support, usage-based pricing

  Terraform Cloud's new Business tier is a sign of what's to come for both Terraform Enterprise and IT ops teams overwhelmed with tools to manage, industry analysts say.

• August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20

  Value stream management tames DevOps chaos at Eli Lilly

  The pharma firm straightened out disorganized DevOps processes, which now include data management for COVID-19 clinical trials, with a Plutora value stream management tool.

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  DevOps pipeline consolidation continues among CI/CD tools

  Bespoke DevOps pipelines are becoming a thing of the past as specialist vendors such as Harness and Drone.io merge to compete with large platform vendors.

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Microsoft unveils Open Service Mesh, vows donation to CNCF

  Microsoft pledged to donate its service mesh to the CNCF in a stab at Istio, setting the stage for potential vendor collaboration around multi-cloud interoperability standards.

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  New Relic pricing plummets with product overhaul

  New Relic dropped pricing for a newly unified set of IT monitoring tools, as it faces fresh competitive pressures and users adjust to cloud-native complexity.

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Styra policy builder eases access to IT compliance as code

  Styra's Rego Policy Builder guides novice users through the process of rendering OPA policies, part of the vendor's push to broaden the audience for its commercial software.

• July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20

  Google's OUC play muddies Istio service mesh outlook

  Google surprised even major partners with the transfer of Istio's trademark to a new organization it launched last week, leaving some key governance details undefined.

• July 07, 2020 07 Jul'20

  Open source license issues stymie enterprise contributions

  Business and ethical pressures have given rise to new types of open source licenses in the last year, presenting challenges to enterprises that want to contribute to projects.

• July 06, 2020 06 Jul'20

  Open source contributions face friction over company IP

  Software engineers who want to contribute to open source projects must convince conservative corporate legal departments it's worth the potential risk to corporate IP.

• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  AIOps tools expand as users warm slowly to autoremediation

  AIOps tool vendors keep expanding the environments they can support with automated remediation features, but users are taking their time to move beyond root cause analysis.

• 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 25, 2020 25 Jun'20

  Puppet unveils event-driven IT automation plans

  Puppet's IT automation system Relay, now in beta, offers an event-driven take on IT workflows, but the vendor must clearly establish the product's value over competing DevOps systems.

• 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 24, 2020 24 Jun'20

  HashiCorp Terraform beta brings long-awaited features

  Terraform 0.13, recently released to public beta, includes support for complex infrastructure deployments that users have eagerly awaited.

• 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.

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  DevOps pros rethink cloud cost with continuous delivery tool

  Cloud cost management is a new task for developers under DevOps, and a continuous delivery add-on presents a new way to show them infrastructure inefficiencies.

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  New ServiceNow workflows extend into more markets

  ServiceNow continues to direct its workflows toward vertical markets with new offerings for telecommunications, financial services and healthcare markets.

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  Atlassian takes on DevOps pipeline tools integration

  Pre-built hooks between Atlassian DevOps tools are in demand among IT teams that must manage an overwhelming number of cross-functional projects and vendor products.

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  Chef software broadens scope amid IT automation disruption

  Chef seeks a new niche as IT automation shifts toward Kubernetes and cloud-native tools, but IT pros have many options, with some more appealing than Chef in high-scale scenarios.

• 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 15, 2020 15 May'20

  Essential firms forge on with AIOps for incident response

  AIOps systems for incident response have helped a bank and a provider of care services in the home streamline operations amid a pandemic emergency and an ongoing IT skills shortage.

• May 08, 2020 08 May'20

  Puppet Labs CTO eyes IT automation amid COVID-19

  An entirely new executive leadership team is the latest of several upheavals at Puppet Labs over the last four years, but CTO Abby Kearns says there's a clearer path ahead in 2020.

• 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 24, 2020 24 Apr'20

  HashiCorp Consul service leads off post-funding roadmap

  HashiCorp CEO David McJannet discusses the company's future, including a Consul managed service headed for public beta this week, overlap with Kubernetes and building a sustainable open source business.

• April 23, 2020 23 Apr'20

  Infrastructure-as-code competitor challenges Terraform

  Pulumi 2.0 ratchets up the heat on HashiCorp's rival Terraform IaC tool, adding policy as code, test automation and secrets management features to its mainstream language support.

• April 16, 2020 16 Apr'20

  COVID-19 remote work forces shift on SecOps strategy

  Security risk was mostly an afterthought as businesses scrambled to support remote work in response to COVID-19, but SecOps is now at the top of IT shops' priority lists.

• 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.

• April 03, 2020 03 Apr'20

  As Atlassian cloud push ramps up, users assess migration

  Atlassian's cloud products offer sought-after enterprise features and extend integrations, but some organizations will still struggle to transition from its on-premises tools.

• April 03, 2020 03 Apr'20

  SysAid announces launch of new workflow tool, Workflow Designer

  Workflow Designer uses a drag-and-drop process to make workflows easier to create with less training and can be crucial with the rise of employees working from home.

• April 02, 2020 02 Apr'20

  IT service desks rush to support remote work amid pandemic

  IT service desks bore the brunt of the sudden transition from centralized business locations to remote work for most white-collar employees, as COVID-19 forced social distancing.

• 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 31, 2020 31 Mar'20

  Log monitoring refinements control data growth, costs

  Whether it's pricing according to access frequency or reducing the volume of logs sent by IT infrastructure, fresh IT monitoring approaches make cloud-native visibility manageable.

• 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 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  Las Vegas shores up SecOps with multi-factor authentication

  AI-driven SecOps tools spared Las Vegas from a major data breach in January. The city now bets that two-factor authentication can stop future attempts.

• March 17, 2020 17 Mar'20

  Coronavirus forces switch to remote work for DevOps teams

  The new coronavirus pandemic will force most DevOps teams to work remotely and may also interfere with work schedules. Experts share advice on how to weather the disruption.

• 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 11, 2020 11 Mar'20

  Continuous delivery pipeline transforms hotel chain's IT ops

  As Choice Hotels moved away from homegrown scripting tools for continuous delivery, it fundamentally shifted the daily duties of its IT ops teams.

• 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 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  VMware security for Cloud Foundation ties to Carbon Black

  The new VMware Advanced Security for Cloud Foundation binds the company's security offerings with other key VMware offerings such as Carbon Black and NSX.

• February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20

  JFrog touts DevSecOps edge in CI/CD tools

  JFrog hops aboard a crowded CI/CD bandwagon, but its expertise in artifact and package management could appeal to security-conscious DevOps shops.

• 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 21, 2020 21 Feb'20

  Massive DoD DevSecOps standards push may aid enterprise IT

  The CNCF, defense contractors and IT vendors have joined forces with the Department of Defense to establish NIST security standards and best practices for DevSecOps.

• February 21, 2020 21 Feb'20

  GKE Application Manager does GitOps for Kubernetes config

  GKE Application Manager, rolled out in beta this week, bakes in an open source Kubernetes configuration management tool to simplify application deployments to GKE.

• February 14, 2020 14 Feb'20

  Chef IT automation invigorates legacy apps amid cloud surge

  Chef Software's Habitat tool carved out a niche as it matured, among enterprise IT pros tasked with modernizing legacy data center apps.

• 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.