VMware is looking to meet the unique needs of traditional and modern applications with the announcement of its new and expanded cloud offerings announced at VMworld in San Francisco this week. The new offerings are designed to enable customers to migrate and modernize applications across clouds, data centers and edge locations with simplified cloud planning, … continue reading
Red Hat has announced its own service mesh solution to bring an end-to-end developer experience to microservices. Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh provides the ability to connect, observe and simplify service-to-service communications on Kubernetes. According to the company, it is based on Istio, Kiali and Jaeger projects, and designed to free developers from having to … continue reading
The O’Reilly Open Source Software Conference (OSCON) is taking place this week in Oregon, gathering together industry leaders to talk about open source, cloud native, data-driven solutions, AI capabilities and product management. “OSCON has continued to be the catalyst for open source innovation for twenty years, providing organizations with the latest technological advances and guidance … continue reading
IBM announced the next generation of its IBM Blockchain Platform, which has been rearchitected to support deployments via Kubernetes to public clouds or on-premises. Multicloud and other advanced capabilities have also been added to the platform. The new extension for Visual Studio Code is designed to help users integrate smart contract development and network management … continue reading
Having a continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for a project is almost mandatory nowadays. With cloud-native software in general and Kubernetes applications in particular, developers and operators face new challenges: How do I run my end-to-end tests in a Kubernetes environment? How can I automate the process of testing and releasing my application for … continue reading
Red Hat this week announced a rearchitected OpenShift at its Summit conference, with version 4 bringing a cloud-like experience. The company said it will be generally available next month. The release also includes Operator Hub, which makes the concept of operators a first-class citizen in the platform update, according to Brian Micklea, who runs the … continue reading
The cloud is front and center at Microsoft’s Build conference this year. Microsoft announced multiple developer tools and new cloud experiences to improve Azure in its competition against the leader in the cloud domain, Amazon. The Azure tools aim to accelerate innovation in AI, MR and IoT from the intelligent cloud to intelligent edge, according … continue reading
Codefresh, providers of a Kubernetes-native automated continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) solution, released a new user interface and upgraded capabilities that can speed code changes. The new Projects section groups pipelines, secrets, and permissions into a single hub. In addition, the new Pipeline Creation Wizard handles webhook creation, and provides quick-start templates for Go, Java, Node.js, … continue reading
Advancing DevOps was a key theme at the recent Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco. The most significant developments included the launch of the company’s Anthos hybrid extension of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Cloud Run, a new Knative serverless offering running in its Kubernetes service in the pipeline and various other tools to … continue reading
Docker today announced Docker Enterprise 3.0, an update to its container platform with new desktop functionality, developer tooling, simplified Docker Kubernetes Service, and the ability to run the platform as a managed service. The new release, announced at today’s opening of DockerCon in San Francisco, introduces Docker Applications, a set of tools upon which developers … continue reading
Rancher Labs today released a new operating system built for its k3s Kubernetes distribution to simplify administration and make k3s clusters even more secure. Before k3OS, users of Rancher Labs’ k3s still had to manage the underlying Linux operating system separately, Sheng LIangi, CEO and co-founder of Rancher, told SD Times leading up to the … continue reading
At Strata Data Conference in San Francisco this week, data company Panzura announced an Elasticsearch-as-a-service solution for its Vizion.ai platform. Vizion.ai Elasticsearch service will allow users to achieve the benefits of a serverless model for deploying Elasticstacks, without having to deal with challenges such as cluster size, scale limitations, or management. “Setting up the infrastructure … continue reading
