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CNCF Pushes Forward with Kubernetes 1.13 Release
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has released Kubernetes 1.13, an update that formally makes available a kubeadm capability to make it easier to administer Kubernetes. Kubernetes 1.13 also makes available a ...
Containers and Functions: Leveraging Ephemeral Infrastructure Effectively
With containers, microservices and functions interweaving through modern application design, diligence is necessary to make sure you’re successfully navigating when to use containers and functions as application packaging technologies and how to ...
What Are Containers and Why Do We Need Them?
Containers have been around since the early 2000s and architected into Linux in 2007. Due to containers’ small footprint and portability, the same hardware can support an exponentially larger number of containers ...
Best Practices for HIPAA Compliance in a Containerized Environment
The HIPAA compliance framework is somewhat infamous for setting high-level requirements regarding healthcare data and privacy without recommending specific ways of meeting those requirements. That tendency leaves many developers, admins and DevOps ...
CNCF Elevates Envoy Service Proxy Project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this week announced the open source Envoy service proxy software originally developed by Lyft has now graduated. Envoy becomes the third CNCF project to achieve this ...
AWS Adds MicroVMs for Containers and Serverless Computing Frameworks
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week revealed it has developed a microVM dubbed Firecracker that it is using to isolate IT infrastructure resources more efficiently for customers using either the managed AWS ...
Container Storage Goes Native
After changing the application development game, containers are rewriting the rules for storage. Now, developers can provision reliable, persistent and stateful storage right inside their containers, without sacrificing development speed. That’s a ...
Scalyr Brings Log Management to Kubernetes Clusters
As IT organizations embrace Kubernetes to deploy containerized applications, they are discovering a need for tools to manage a new type of cluster that is proliferating rapidly across the enterprise. To address ...
Why You Should Incorporate AIOps Into Your Container Strategy
If you’ve been paying attention to container adoption in recent years, you’ve witnessed its steady growth. According to a report from Diamanti, 44 percent of the surveyed IT leaders plan to switch ...
Rookout Brings Debugging Tools to Kubernetes
As developers rely more on containers running on Kubernetes clusters, many DevOps teams are coming to terms with the inherent challenges associated with debugging those applications. Kubernetes and containers are especially challenging ...