platform as a service

Survey Shows Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry Synergies
A survey of 176 IT professionals published this week by the Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) finds over two-thirds of respondents (69%) are now running Kubernetes and the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment ...

DigitalOcean Dives Deeper into Containers and Kubernetes
DigitalOcean, during an online Deploy by DigitalOcean event, announced today that its DigitalOcean Container Registry service is now generally available. In addition, the cloud service provider has added a Deploy to DigitalOcean ...

CFF Launches Paketo Buildpacks for Containers
The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF), in partnership with VMware, today launched Paketo Buildpacks, which are based on a set of specifications and tools for compiling code and configuring containers by automatically detecting ...

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 ...

PaaS vs. KaaS: A Primer
Developers looking for a way to speed up the production of Kubernetes applications have several options, including platform as a service (PaaS) and Kubernetes as a service (KaaS). They can be pretty ...

Aqua Security Extends Pivotal Alliance
Aqua Security has extended its container security alliance with Pivotal Software to include containerized applications running on the distribution of the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that Pivotal makes available. The two companies ...

Cloud Foundry Foundation Moves Closer to Kubernetes
The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) is moving to bridge the divide between Kubernetes and its open source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment with the launch of two additional projects. Eirini, proposed by IBM, is ...

Red Hat Expands Scope of OpenShift Platforms Based on Kubernetes
Red Hat today announced an update to its OpenShift application development platform based on Kubernetes that, for the first time, adds tools aimed at IT administrators rather than just developers. Mike Barrett, ...

CNCF Advances Kubernetes Security
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this week formally added via of 1.12 release of Kubernetes support for an application programming interface (API) for requesting certificates from a cluster-level Certificate Authority (CA) ...

IBM Extends Kubernetes Reach
IBM plans to make an instance of the open source Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment available on Kubernetes generally available on the IBM Cloud at the end of this quarter. In addition, ...