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Canonical Extends Reach of MicroK8s
Canonical has updated its lightweight distribution of Kubernetes, known as MicroK8s, to add support for version 1.22 of Kubernetes in addition to making available in beta a version that now runs on ...
CNCF: 80% of Orgs Want Open Source Cloud-Native Security
Open source software is now essential for driving digital innovation. And arguably, the cloud-native space wouldn’t exist without it — open source software (OSS) is now ubiquitous throughout all aspects of cloud-native ...
Introduction to Open Policy Agent (OPA)
Recent decades have seen organizations adopt various types of software applications along the road to digitalization. Some of these applications face end users and others are used by internal operators. And, more ...
Aqua Security Report Reveals Container Attack Blast Radius
An analysis of 105 victims of malicious container images published today by Aqua Security today finds just over a third (36%) of hosts had multiple severe vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that could be ...
Understanding Kubernetes Compliance and Security Frameworks
There’s a reason why Kubernetes (K8s) has become the world’s leading container orchestration platform, with 74% of today’s IT companies using it for containerized workloads in production. It’s often the simplest way ...
DevOps Needs SQL Server Containers for Windows
In an earlier blog, I explained the need for DevOps database platforms. The DevOps database requirements apply to all variations of containerized SQL databases as needed to support the variations that exist ...
4 Container Runtime Projects From CNCF
Containers have become a popular method to build out fully independent and tightly controlled applications that essentially act as if they’re running on their own computer. Container runtimes are the software that ...
Portworx by Pure Storage Extends K8s Data Protection
Portworx by Pure Storage has updated its backup and recovery platform to add an ability to offload backups from CSI snapshots to object storage platforms. IT teams can now also back up ...
7 Open Source Cloud-Native Tools For Observability and Analysis
In 2021, ‘observability’ is close to gaining buzzword status. This is perhaps because, for years, monitoring wasn’t as standardized in software development. Tracing was given less forethought, and applications produced logs in ...
What Holistic Cloud-Native Security and Observability Look Like
The rise of cloud-native and containerization, along with the automation of the CI/CD pipeline, introduced fundamental changes to existing application development, deployment, and security paradigms. Because cloud-native is so different from traditional ...