A top-10 global bank recently told my team that what took six months with their legacy orchestration platform, they rebuilt in six days. Not because they hired better engineers. Because the coordination layer matched the complexity of what they were trying to do. That gap between what enterprises need to automate and what their orchestration … continue reading
WSO2 today is announcing that its Developer Platform for OpenChoreo 1.0, is now available. OpenChoreo is an open-source CNCF Sandbox project designed for platform engineers to build Kubernetes- and cloud-native internal developer platforms. The WSO2 platform enables teams to run OpenChoreo projects, but with stability, security and architectural guidance, the company said in a blog … continue reading
Over the past two years, the pace of innovation for AI code assistance has been nothing short of astounding. We’ve moved from “enhanced autocomplete” systems to ecosystems of AI agents capable of completing complex tasks and cranking out prodigious amounts of code. At the same time, developers are being asked to build, test, and deploy … continue reading
MetalBear is launching a new tool that allows development teams to run CI tests against Kubernetes environments without needing to deploy code to it or spin up test environments. According to MetalBear, testing cloud native applications can be difficult because a change made to a single service requires other services to be tested to see … continue reading
Mirantis is introducing an AI-powered copilot into its Kubernetes IDE Lens. With Lens Prism, developers will be able to use natural language to troubleshoot and operate their Kubernetes clusters. Developers can ask questions like “What’s wrong with my pod?”, “How much CPU is this namespace using?” or “Is anything failing in my cluster?” Lens Prism … continue reading
I was a guest of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) at its EU KubeCon conference in London the first week of April. Most of my conversations with the vendors at the event can be grouped under three main themes: multi-cluster management, AI workloads, and reducing Kubernetes costs on the cloud. Multi-cluster management Running Kubernetes … continue reading
Large migrations are always fraught with potential dangers. The team has built trust with customers over years and years on a platform that the organization chose many years ago. The team knows the platform inside and out, including all of its quirks and odd little behaviors. It feels a bit like a team member itself. … continue reading
KubeCon + Cloud Native Con is happening this week in Salt Lake City, UT, bringing together the Kubernetes community in one location, and providing the opportunity for companies in the space to launch new offerings and update their products. We’ve collected the news announcements from those companies all in one place so you can stay … continue reading
In today’s rapidly evolving observability and security use cases, the concept of “shifting left” has moved beyond just software development. With the consistent and rapid rise of data volumes across logs, metrics, traces, and events, organizations are required to be a lot more thoughtful in efforts to turn chaos into control when it comes to … continue reading
The API management platform WSO2 has announced a slew of new updates aimed at helping customers manage APIs in a technology landscape increasingly dependent on AI and Kubernetes. The updates span the releases of WSO2 API Manager 4.4, WSO2 API Platform for Kubernetes (APK) 1.2, and WSO2 API Microgateway 3.2, which are all available today. … continue reading
The database company Aerospike has announced the latest version of its Kubernetes Operator with new features that improve backup and scalability. The Aerospike Kubernetes Operator (AKO) enables users to simplify management and monitoring of their Aerospike databases. AKO 3.4 incorporates the recently launched Aerospike Backup Service (ABS), which allows for easy management of backup jobs … continue reading
Around 50% of attendees to KubeCon in Salt Lake City will be first-timers. If that’s you: welcome, it’s gonna be an awesome show. Like thousands of others in businesses around the world, you’ve kicked the tires on K8s and decided that it’s worth committing to, at least enough to justify the cost of a week … continue reading
