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Prometheus Monitoring Ecosystem Begins to Mature
The ecosystem surrounding the open source Prometheus monitoring systems for Kubernetes clusters is starting to mature. Cortex, a scalable, highly available, multi-tenant storage platform for Prometheus, and Thanos, a metric system that ...
The New Security Paradigm for Kubernetes and Istio
One of the great benefits of cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes is the ability to expand and contract based on immediate resource requirements. The elasticity of Kubernetes allows the administrator to automatically ...
Rancher Labs Donates Lightweight Kubernetes to CNCF
Rancher Labs and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today that a lightweight distribution of Kubernetes dubbed K3s has now become a sandbox-level project managed under the auspices of the open ...
Kubernetes 1.19 Arrives, a Tad Later Than Usual
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) for Kubernetes tomorrow plans to release version 1.19 of the platform that, in addition to adding debugging and storage management tools, brings closure to some capabilities that ...
IBM Adds Compliance to Management Framework
IBM has extended its IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management offering for managing legacy IT environments from a Kubernetes cluster to now include compliance controls. Sai Zeng, a member of the principal ...
Protecting Containers Against ‘Doki’ Malware
Security researchers at Intezer recently alerted the enterprise security community about Doki, a new and substantial malware targeting public Docker environments. Downloaded and installed via a Linux backdoor, Doki uses Dyn’s DynDNS ...
Carbon Relay Pushes AIOps Left Toward Developers of Container Apps
Carbon Relay has made available a free edition of an IT operations platform infused with artificial intelligence (AIOps) aimed at developers who want to identify potential issues before an application is deployed ...
Aqua Security Reveals Sophisticated Container Attack
An alert concerning a container image that was deployed on a honeypot managed by Aqua Security suggests cybercriminals are getting a lot more sophisticated when it comes to scanning for container vulnerabilities ...
CyberArk Discloses Potential Security Flaw in Kubernetes Agent Software
CyberArk, a provider of access management tools, today issued an advisory describing multiple potential misconfigurations of kubelet, the agent software that registers a Kubernetes node with an application programming interface (API) server, ...
Snyk Launches Tool to Address Kubernetes Configuration Issues
Snyk, at the at the online KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 conference this week, launched a tool that discovers and helps remediate misconfigurations in Kubernetes clusters that were deployed using the open ...