POPULAR DEVOPS COURSES THAT YOU SHOULD BE TAKING UP

Source:-analyticsindiamag.com DevOps is widely considered as an ideology where software development and IT operations teams work together and share progress. DevOps ensures proper communication is established between both the teams, which will lead to an organisation delivering their end-product with minimal time and problems. With DevOps being widely used, candidates possessing related skills are in demand. Below are listed some of the most popular online DevOps courses that one can take up to upskill: Learn DevOps: The Complete Kubernetes Course

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Trend Micro Publishes Guide to Kubernetes Security

Source:-containerjournal.com Trend Micro has created a guide to Kubernetes threats that categorizes the threats into three broad categories: external attacks, misconfiguration issues and vulnerable applications. Mark Nunnikhoven, vice president of cloud research at Trend Micro, says adoption of Kubernetes is exacerbating an existing shortage of cybersecurity expertise by introducing into enterprise IT environments a platform that is as complex as it is powerful. As a result, the opportunities for cybersecurity mistakes to be made are considerable, he notes. Most external

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NearForm: What’s next for Kubernetes?

Source:-computerweekly.com Kubernetes is a fast-evolving toolset, with a growing capability to deliver speed and agility in how enterprises deploy, scale and manage their applications. Kubernetes is going serverless There are some fundamental changes on the way for Kubernetes
 and one of them is that it’s going to go serverless. It’s happening already in AWS with Fargate, the serverless compute engine for containers that works with Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). At the moment, a

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Kubernetes Storage Developments Enable Remote Work

Source:-forbes.com As many of us come into our third month of working at home, we have become ever more dependent on technology for keeping in touch and continue working using cloud-based applications and tools. Many of these cloud-based applications run in software-defined containers in large data centers. Kubernetes is a popular open source software platform for managing and “orchestrating” these containers. Several companies have recently announced features that work with Kubernetes to manage backup and storage of Kubernetes orchestrated containers.

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Why DevSecOps Is Critical for Containers and Kubernetes

Source:-darkreading.com DevSecOps is a big and sometimes difficult shift for organizations. The key to success? Take small steps. DevOps has enabled organizations to harness the automation and speed of deployment that cloud-native technologies such as containers and Kubernetes provide. However, if security is not tightly integrated into DevOps, organizations’ ability to take full advantage of the cloud-native model is severely diminished. If this sounds familiar, your company is at best getting less bang for its cloud-native buck and at worst

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VMware Releases State of Kubernetes 2020 Report

Source:-containerjournal.com VMware has announced the availability of its “State of Kubernetes 2020 Report,” which surveyed 247 individuals actively using Kubernetes within a company of 1,000 or more employees. Performed by Dimensional Research and commissioned by VMware, the report offers a unique window into the experience and attitudes of those implementing Kubernetes in practice. The study targetted companies with large development teams, with 24% having more than 2,500 developers. Here, we summarize some key findings from the report. Kubernetes Experiences Exponential

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Microsoft Azure Adds Another VMware Option to the Multi-Cloud Mix

Source:-datacenterknowledge.com It’s a way to extend your VMware environment into Azure. Wait, didn’t we already have that? Data centers today are looking for ways to add infrastructure and services from the big public cloud providers on an as-needed basis. It’s called multi-cloud deployment, and it gives operators options even if they don’t always need them. Up until this week, these operators actually had one option from Microsoft for extending their VMware virtual machine environments onto Azure infrastructure, called Azure VMware

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Kubernetes security: New tech, familiar attack vectors

Source:-enterprisersproject.com With Kubernetes, some old threat vectors may feel new again. Kubernetes security experts say misconfigured settings and privilege mistakes are examples that can open up risk. Mind these six items To call Kubernetes “new” is increasingly a misnomer: July 15, 2020, will mark the five-year anniversary of version 1.0 of the CNCF open source project. But it’s still plenty new to many teams and individual practitioners, with a corresponding learning curve about how to take appropriate measures to secure

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Clouds need containers, and Containers-as-a-Service smooths the way

Source:-zdnet.com Containers are well regarded for the flexibility they add to application development and deployment, especially when it comes to moving application workloads between clouds, between clouds and on-premises systems, or even from one on-premises system to another. However, effectively building a complex containerized environment still takes skills and experience. Enter Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS), a variation of Platform-as-a-Service that has been around as a concept for a few years, and lately is being embraced in a big way to speed up

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Red Hat Summit 2020: A virtual summit from home

Source:-datastorageasean.com The first-ever Red Hat Virtual Summit saw the company have a limited number of releases than it usually does. It was a different feeling watching Paul Cormier, Red Hat President and CEO deliver his keynote address from his home. Having just taken over the role of President weeks before, we could see that Paul and the Red Hat team were well prepared to take the company forward during these testing times. “Perhaps more than ever before, the unique needs

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4 Kubernetes security challenges and how to address them

Source:-techbeacon.com The widespread use of Kubernetes is testament to enterprises’ faith in their ability not just to handle the complexity of modern app development and modernization initiatives, but to do so at scale. According to a recent survey of 1,340 technical experts in companies of all sizes, conducted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), 78% of respondents are using the open-source container orchestration tool in production. This is up from just 58% last year. But while Kubernetes is one

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Couchbase goes cuckoo for Kubernetes with v2.0 release of Autonomous Operator

Source:-theregister.co.uk NoSQL or open source, databases cannot help but be drawn to Googly cloud container orchestration system The latest release from Couchbase finally includes support for Kubernetes, which is becoming something of a de facto standard among databases. Couchbase is a NoSQL database of the document-oriented kind, used by global players such as airline ticketing company Amadeus, American Express, Cisco and eBay. The Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes 2.0 is designed to allow developers and database managers to deploy Couchbase in

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Google’s Cloud revenue will take center stage as the company prepares for economic downturn

Source:-businessinsider.com Cloud revenues will become increasingly important for Google, as the company prepares to weather an economic downturn that will have outsize impacts on its core advertising business. Google generated $33.8 billion in advertising revenue in Q1 2020, which accounted for 82% of the $41.2 billion in overall revenue for the quarter — down from 84.5% in the same quarter last year. US Tech Titans’ Cloud Revenue Growth Rates Business Insider Intelligence CFO Ruth Porat noted during the company’s Q1

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OPENSHIFT, KUBERNETES, AND THE HYBRID CLOUD

Source:-nextplatform.com For all the talk of cloud computing for the past decade and a half, for all the growth that the hyperscale public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud have undergone in recent years, these are still the early days of the cloud. The bulk of workloads still live in the on premises datacenters of tens of millions of enterprises worldwide. And for any number of reasons, ranging from ongoing security or compliance concerns or

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Sydney AWS region sees bumper crop of releases

Source:-arnnet.com.au CloudWatch Synthetics and Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) enter GA and EKS gets Fargate support Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a slew of updates for its Sydney region, bringing website monitoring and Apache Cassandra database services into general availability (GA) and adding containers running through AWS Fargate. The GA of CloudWatch Synthetics allows for users to create ‘canaries’, configurable scripts that follow the same routes and actions as customers. These canaries can monitor representational state transfer application programming interfaces

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Container security meets Kubernetes: What IT pros need to know

Source:-techrepublic.com Docker brought containers into the enterprise; static scanning makes sure they are secure when the images are created. Who watches them when they run? Docker made it possible to have an exact copy of the core elements of the operating system and the application code in a single, manageable file. BusyBox, the simplest production-ready Docker image, is only 2.1MB. That is small enough to check into version control and small enough to copy around on the network. It’s small

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How and when to use operators in Kubernetes

Source:-techrepublic.com Operators simplify application in Kubernetes. Do you really need yet another layer of management, and should you write your own? Here are your options. In Kubernetes terms, an operator is a piece of software designed to run routine operations for specific pieces of software on a Kubernetes cluster. The name comes from human operators, which used to be an actual job. When I was graduating college, I interviewed for a position as a computer operator. While all positions in

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Kong for Kubernetes 0.8 Ingress Controller Released

Source:-infoq.com Kong Inc. released Kong for Kubernetes version 0.8 – a Kubernetes Ingress controller that works with the Kong API Gateway. The release adds Knative integration, a new cluster level Custom Resource Definition, and annotations to minimize configuration. The Kong Gateway is an open source API gateway built on top of NGINX. The Kong for Kubernetes product is composed of two parts – “a Kubernetes controller, which manages the state of Kong for K8S ingress configuration, and the Kong Gateway,

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Why Kubernetes Needs More Network Visibility And Protection

Source:-informationsecuritybuzz.com Kubernetes’ popularity has skyrocketed. In 2018, Forrester declared it the victor in the “war for container orchestration dominance”. However, a 2019 Gartner report highlights both the immaturity of the container ecosystem and a general lack of operational best practice. Another issue is that Kubernetes adoption can significantly increase both internal application and associated management-related traffic. This is because it is designed to use small detached chunks of an application that communicate using a company’s internal network (including internal cloud

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Five Attributes of a Great DevOps Platform

Source:-devops.com As we move toward 2020, the expectations are high, the software industry is moving faster and the demand for rapid and continually improving digital experiences have raised the standard. To match the needs and demands of the market, firms around the world are embracing the DevOps culture to ensure and streamline the development, packaging, testing, deployment and maintenance of software at scale. Every DevOps organization is defined by its own leadership, culture, practices, policies, leadership style, structure, talents, skills,

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