Secure Your Future in 2024: Grab a Piece of the K8s Security Pie
Last year was rough, with 50% more tech layoffs in 2023 than in 2022. The security function was anything but immune from the trend — recent studies show that, by the middle of 2023, 22% of security...
View ArticleKey Considerations for Containing Kubernetes Costs
Kubernetes has become the essential backbone to millions of applications, relied upon by two-thirds of Fortune 100 companies and hundreds of thousands of applications. Gartner predicts that by 2027,...
View ArticleCNCF-Approved Strimzi Eases Apache Kafka onto K8s Clusters
A project to make Kafka easier to install on Kubernetes systems has been adopted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) as an incubating project. Strimzi logo...
View ArticleTraefik Proxy v3 Adds WebAssembly and Kubernetes Gateway API Support
A leading open source reverse proxy and load balancer, Traefik Proxy, is adding more cloud native support. Reverse proxy and load balancing software has been vital for connecting backend services with...
View ArticleLinkedIn Open Sources Interactive Debugger for K8s AI Pipelines
Kubernetes is increasingly popular as a platform for building machine learning projects on, but the developer experience on Kubernetes remains challenging, often requiring more infrastructure...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Kubernetes Security Mistakes You’re Probably Making
We knew Kubernetes was a different animal for security, but only now are we realizing the full scope of what is unique about its threats. The flexibility offered by automated deployments, shared...
View ArticleKubernetes Predictions Were Wrong
In 2020, people were predicting that Kubernetes would disappear within a year. They believed someone would create a service that would reduce the adjacent choices and make Kubernetes the easy default....
View ArticleSecuring Kubernetes in a Cloud Native World
Kubernetes has revolutionized the way cloud native applications are deployed and managed, but how can you mitigate those weak links in cloud environments? Simply put, cloud native means building,...
View ArticleHow to Address Kubernetes Risks and Vulnerabilities Head-on
According to Gartner, more than 90% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production by 2027. This is a significant increase from fewer than 40% in 2021. As container...
View ArticleSome Linkerd Users Must Pay: Fear and Anger Explained
Buoyant’s decision to charge organizations with 50 or more users for access to the stable releases of its open source service mesh has certainly evoked ire and anger expressed on the Xsphere (formerly...
View ArticleObservability Is a Multicluster App Developer’s Best Friend
Multicluster application development is on the rise, and developers are dealing with a frustrating level of complexity related to these dynamic and distributed architectures. Choosing the best way to...
View ArticleThe Black Hole That Is the Kubernetes Network
There’s been a tension in physics over the last century or so between two theories. Both have proven valuable for predicting the behavior of the universe, as well as for advancing technological...
View ArticleCodefresh and Octopus: GitOps, K8s and VMs Under One Roof
The recent Codefresh and Octopus Deploy merger is much more than just about Kubernetes. Yes, the merged entity between Codefresh and Octopus will go a long way in unifying the deployments of cloud...
View ArticleKubeCon 24: Crossplane, a Developer-Friendly Control Plane
For those heading to KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Europe later this month in Paris (March 19-22), be sure to stop by the Crossplane booth (Kiosk PP1-B in the afternoons of March 20-22), to learn about the...
View Article5 Reasons to Run MongoDB on Kubernetes
Running MongoDB on Kubernetes is a smart choice for businesses looking to meet scalability, reliability and performance demands. The integration of these two technologies addresses some of the most...
View ArticleFalco Is a CNCF Graduate. Now What?
The fact that Falco has achieved graduation status with the CNCF shows that a lot of work yet has to be done to pave the way for eBPF to achieve its full potential, not only for security and...
View ArticleHow to Better Manage Stateful Applications in Kubernetes
In the dynamic world of cloud native computing characterized by container-based microservices, Kubernetes has emerged as the standard for orchestrating containerized applications. Its agility in...
View ArticleWith YAMLScript, YAML Becomes a Proper Programming Language
Does YAML data need to be programmed? Many think so, including one of the creators of YAML itself. Ingy döt Net, has started a project to bringing scripting capabilities to the data serialization...
View ArticleCloud Native Computing and AI: A Q&A with CNCF’s Head of Ecosystem
Taylor Dolezal Artificial intelligence, and Generative AI in particular, has become a top subject of conversation, from food to fashion and just about everything else. It’s making huge inroads in...
View ArticleSimplify Kubernetes Hosted Control Planes with K0smotron
Multicluster Kubernetes gets complicated and expensive fast — especially in dynamic environments. Private cloud multicluster solutions need to wrangle a lot of moving parts: Private or public cloud...
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