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How Nestybox Aims to Disrupt Container Runtimes with Sysbox
The battle to build a better container runtime is on. A startup called Nestybox wants to win it with a runc-based runtime that enables containers essentially to behave just like virtual machines—including ...
CNCF Annual Report Shows Kubernetes Growth
An annual report published today by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) suggests the pool of IT professionals who have Kubernetes expertise is expanding. The number of IT professionals participating in a ...
Catalogic Software Debuts Open Source Backup Tool for Kubernetes
Catalogic Software has made available the open source KubeDR utility for backing up and recovering Kubernetes cluster configuration, certificates and metadata residing in an etcd repository. Company COO Sathya Sankaran says Catalogic ...
VAST Data Delivers of CSI Promise
VAST Data has made generally available versions of its all-flash storage arrays that support the Container Storage Interface (CSI) for connecting external storage systems to Kubernetes clusters. Jeff Denworth, vice president of ...
Elastic Brings Observability Platform to Kubernetes
Elastic N.V. announced this week that Elastic Cloud, a subscription instance of an observability platform based on the open source Elasticsearch engine, is generally available on Kubernetes. Anurag Gupta, principal product manager ...
Red Hat Delivers Latest Kubernetes Enhancements
Red Hat this week moved to make it easier to operationalize IT environments based on Kubernetes by making the latest versions of Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage generally ...
Instana Adds CRI-O Support to APM Platform
Instana this week became one of the first providers of an application performance management (APM) service to add support for the Container Runtime Interface based on the Open Container Initiative specification, otherwise ...
CNCF Funds Cybersecurity Bug Bounty Initiative for Kubernetes
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced it is funding a bounty program for discovering security bugs in any distribution of Kubernetes. Maya Kaczorowski, product manager for container security at Google, ...
Using Kubernetes for Mission-Critical Databases
Successfully using Kubernetes with production databases requires the right level of management and monitoring It is remarkable how quickly Kubernetes has moved through the hype cycle to become an integral part of ...
Should You Move Your Monolith to Microservices?
Sometimes, breaking the monolith into microservices is not a good idea. Here’s why, and how to make the right choice The monolith, with all its strength and power, is a pillar of ...