Google Petitions to Donate Istio Service Mesh to CNCF
Google and the Istio Steering Committee today announced at an IstioCon 22 event that they have submitted the open source Istio service mesh for consideration to become an incubating project administered by ...
Google Previews Anthos Platform for On-Premises IT
At its online Next ’21 conference, Google today previewed a set of Google Distributed Cloud offerings that enable IT teams to deploy its Kubernetes-based Anthos IT platform in on-premises IT environments. The ...
Despite Google’s ‘Autopilot,’ Kubernetes is Still Hard
We are, obviously, a very long way from being able to put Kubernetes cluster management on “autopilot,” but Google’s new platform ostensibly moves us closer to achieving that goal. Google Kubernetes Engine ...
Google Brings Confidential Computing to GKE Service
Google announced today that it is making available confidential computing nodes that encrypt data while it is processing in beta on the managed Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) service. At the same time, ...
Google Proposes Changes to Istio Steering Committee
Google is making a case for changing the rules under which the open source Istio service mesh project for Kubernetes environments is managed with a proposal to create a new Steering Committee ...
Chef Simplifies Windows App Deployments on GKE
Chef has extended its support for Kubernetes to include support for instances of Windows Server running on the managed Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) service. Vikram Ghosh, vice president of business development for ...
Google Teams Up with Solo.io to Extend Istio
Google and Solo.io are now collaborating to make open source Istio service mesh more extensible by adding support for WebAssembly (WASM), which was created under the auspices of the World Wide Web ...
Google Shares Best Practices for Securing Microservices
Google this week made a case for moving beyond firewalls to secure microservices-based applications built using containers by sharing the best practices for a zero-trust networking model it relies on to secure ...
Google Extends Scope of Anthos Cloud Platform
Google this week extended its campaign to establish Anthos as a hybrid cloud computing platform by adding support for a serverless computing framework along with an instance of the Istio service mesh ...
Google Aims to Wed Apache Spark to Kubernetes
Google today announced it will extend Google Cloud Dataproc, a managed service for accessing the Apache Spark in-memory computing framework, to Kubernetes. James Malone, a Google senior product manager, says Google will ...
