Data Protection for Stateful Applications in Kubernetes
Stateful applications: Whether or not you believe they belong in Kubernetes, the fact is most organizations run a combination of stateful and stateless workloads in containers. Stateful applications and workloads require back ...
IBM Promises Software-Defined Storage for Containers
IBM this week announced it will deliver, in the second half of this year, software-defined storage (SDS) embedded in containers that can be deployed anywhere. Eric Herzog, vice president for business development ...
Armory Employs K3s to Simplify Spinnaker CD Installs
Armory today launched an Armory Minnaker offering that makes use of a lightweight instance of Kubernetes coupled with operators software to make it simpler to deploy its distribution of the open source ...
VMware Tightens Kubernetes Integration to Improve DevOps Workflows
VMware this week added a Virtual Machine Services for VMware vSphere 7 with Tanzu that enables IT teams running a distribution of Kubernetes from VMware to programmatically provision a virtual machine. Sheldon ...
Mirantis Gives Cloud-Native Developers Spaces to Collaborate
Mirantis today unveiled an update to its Lens integrated development environment (IDE) for Kubernetes environments that makes it simpler for multiple developers to collaborate when building cloud-native applications. Version 5 of the ...
The Double-Edged Sword of Kubernetes
Developing and operating distributed architectures is complex and tedious. Over the past decade, many orchstration technologies helped bring the development environment closer to the actual deployment system to simplify development. As you’re ...
The Biggest Enemy in a Software-Defined World: Complexity
Ten years ago this August, Marc Andreessen made his famous declaration that “software is eating the world.” In the decade since, the “dramatic and broad technological and economic shift” that Andreessen illuminated ...
How Containers and VMs Can Coexist
Nowadays, more and more companies are moving to container-based infrastructure. However, virtual machines (VMs) still hold a significant part of the market. For many organizations, migrations from VMs to containers is a ...
DigiCert Uses Containers to Extend Certificate Management Reach
DigiCert today launched DigiCert Automation Manager that employs containers to make a cloud platform for managing certificates more accessible from within an on-premises IT environment. Brian Trzupek, senior vice president of product ...
A Maturity Model for Cloud-Native Databases
Companies have been leveraging Kubernetes and other technologies to move workloads to the clouds. But several nagging challenges have remained: what to do with the data layer, what technologies should you use, ...
