Long Live Containerization!
Google today announced it is making available a configuration management tool for managed instances of Kubernetes it provides in the cloud and, soon, on-premises IT environments. The on-premises capability will be provided via a Cloud Services Platform that includes instances of the managed Kubernetes service for VMware it launched last
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Container use is growing steadily, yet issues around container storage and security have yet to be addressed By Augie Gonzalez, product marketing director for Containerization, DataCore Software Containers bring unprecedented mobility, ease and efficiency for rapidly deploying and updating highly scalable and resilient applications. As a result, containers are now
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According to 451 Research, the application container market will experience significant growth over the next five years. In its “2017 Cloud-Enabling Technologies Market Monitor & Forecast report,” the research firm noted that “annual revenue is expected to increase by 4x, growing from $749m in 2016 to more than $3.4bn by
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Twistlock has extended its container security relationship with IBM to include integration with IBM Cloud Security Advisor, a hub through which IBM consolidates cybersecurity alerts pertaining to potential threats to the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. John Leon, VP of business development and alliances at Twistlock, says this integration extends the
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Is managed Kubernetes a better fit for your organization than in-house Kubernetes? While deploying Kubernetes on your own hardware and running your own local cluster computing is possible, providing your own cloud-native capacity involves dealing with a lot of complexity. Using Kubernetes is inherently automated and, relative to what it
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As containers grow in popularity, so, too, do security threats The disclosure this week of a vulnerability that could be employed by cybercriminals to overwrite the host runc binary to gain control over a root-level code execution on the host machine is driving organizations to once again re-examine best DevSecOps
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IBM this week announced it will leverage Kubernetes to make artificial intelligence (AI) applications based on the IBM Watson platform available on any cloud. Announced at the IBM Think 2019 conference, this latest IBM AI initiative employs IBM Cloud Private for Data (ICP for Data), a stack of middleware IBM
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Kubernetes is great, as it is. But with Knative, a new, open source platform spearheaded by Google, Kubernetes can be even better. If you haven’t yet taken a look at what Knative is or how it can save developers time and headaches, you could be missing out on some powerful
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As more layers of software get deployed on top of Kubernetes, the same container security platforms employed to secure clusters should be extended to support service meshes as well. With that goal in mind, NeuVector announced today that its namesake container security platform now supports both the Istio and Linkerd2
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While most instances of Kubernetes today are deployed on virtual machines running in the cloud or on-premises, there is a growing number of instances of Kubernetes being deployed on bare-metal servers. The two primary reasons for opting to deploy Kubernetes on a bare- metal server over a virtual machine usually
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