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By Tom Fenton
As expected, the big IT vendors all gave K8s the credibility that it deserves, but for me the most interesting news came from the small and mid-sized companies that are laser-focused on K8s. Below are 5 areas that I found especially interesting at KubeCon 2019.
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Project Teleport was created to decrease the startup time of containers on the Azure cloud platform, being especially useful in serverless environments.
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By John K. Waters
IBM added two new open-source tools to the Kubernetes ecosystem: Kui, which is designed to address the "chunky experience" developers face working in hybrid multi-cloud deployments; and Iter8, a new Istio ecosystem tool designed to help developers benefit from rich data and telemetry collected by Istio.
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By Tom Fenton
KubeCon + NativeCon North America 2019 will take place in at the San Diego Convention Center Nov. 18-21, 2019. I've already shared five things I'll be checking out at the show, but San Diego is a fantastic place with perhaps the best weather in the U.S., and if this will be your first time in San Diego, you'll want to set aside some of your free time to explore the city.
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By Tom Fenton
Just when I thought the hype and excitement around Kubernetes (K8s) hit a plateau I was proven wrong as at the major IT conferences (VMworld, NetApp Insight, MS Ignite, etc.) this year K8s took front stage. By all accounts the enthusiasm for K8s will continue unabashed in the foreseeable future as developers love it and enterprises are trying out how to incorporate and tame it.
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Microsoft, known for its recent, dramatic embrace of open source, has unveiled two more projects it's donating to the community, the Open Application Model (OAM), for Kubernetes, and the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), for microservices.
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By Tom Fenton
At next month's user conference, Tom will be checking out what looks to be some very interesting sessions and presentations, focusing on: Kubernetes; HCI VDI with GPU Nodes; NVMe over Fabric; Data Fabric; and NetApp Ecosystem.
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Cybersecurity specialist Illumio boosted its flagship platform with new functionality addressing containerized workloads.
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Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company unveiled four new products and a service in connection with the VMworld 2019 conference held late last month.
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By Tom Fenton
VMware's regular release cadence makes VMworld less of a can't-miss event than it used to be, but that doesn't mean a shortage of major announcements.
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By Tom Fenton
Of all the products that VMware Inc. announced at VMworld this year the one that caught my eye is Tanzu Mission Control (TMC), which is part of the Tanzu portfolio.
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All the best new product names and code names spoken during the VMworld kickoff keynote had to do with Kubernetes.
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Today enterprise-class cloud solutions for Apple Mac infrastructure provider MacStadium Inc. announced a new Docker- and Kubernetes-based virtualization layer for Mac build infrastructure.
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Cisco Systems Inc. announced that it's collaborating with Microsoft "to make it easier for customers to rapidly -- and at scale -- deploy and run containerized applications across both Cisco-based on-premises environments and Microsoft Azure."
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IBM Corp. today announced that it has reengineered its software portfolio to now be "cloud-native and optimized to run on Red Hat OpenShift."
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From hyperscale database engines and improvements in ML.NET 1.0, to the preview of Azure Blockchain Service and new flavors of Azure SQL Database, here's a glimpse at what was announced at the Microsoft developer conference.
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This week Google announced its Google Cloud Platform (GCP) would begin to support VMware workloads.
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News from Canonical, ReactorWorks, NAKIVO, VMware, Storware, StoreONE and Microsoft/AT&T.
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Users can obtain both the "deeper telemetry" metrics Prometheus provides and the "out of the box" information obtained using Azure Monitor for Containers on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)-managed clusters.
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Brien Posey walks through how to deploy the Kubernetes dashboard and its supporting components, which include Heapster and Influxdb.
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Now that you've got Kubernetes set up on AWS, here are the next steps you have to take before you can install the Kubernetes dashboard.
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You can use Kubernetes on Amazon Web Services without installing it yourself.
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Microsoft and Oracle partner (again), WANdisco launches migration tool, Optiv Security announces its Cloud Threat Monitoring and Compliance as-a-Service, MongoDB adds new cloud services, Agile Stacks now offers multi-cloud support, Edgewise Networks introduces Zero Trust Auto-Segmentation.
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Kubernetes 1.15 is released with the theme of continuous improvement and extensibility.
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By Tom Fenton
Released with the Windows 10 Insider Preview, the new architecture looks to deliver a faster file system performance, among other new and improved features.