NetApp Architects Application-Integrated Data Management for Kubernetes with Project Astra

Source:-martechseries.com NetApp introduces vision for enterprise-class data services for stateful, cloud-native applications with any Kubernetes distribution on any cloud NetApp, the leader in cloud data services, introduced Project Astra, a vision for a software-defined platform that is currently in development with the Kubernetes community. Project Astra will deliver the industry’s most robust, easy-to-consume, enterprise-class storage and data services platform for Kubernetes that enables both application and data portability for stateful applications. Marketing Technology News: IDC Publishes Future of Customers and

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AWS and Facebook launch an open-source model server for PyTorch

Source:-techcrunch.com AWS and Facebook today announced two new open-source projects around PyTorch, the popular open-source machine learning framework. The first of these is TorchServe, a model-serving framework for PyTorch that will make it easier for developers to put their models into production. The other is TorchElastic, a library that makes it easier for developers to build fault-tolerant training jobs on Kubernetes clusters, including AWS’s EC2 spot instances and Elastic Kubernetes Service. In many ways, the two companies are taking what

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Alcide’s New sKan Command Line Tool Scans Kubernetes Deployment Files

Source:-infoq.com Alcide, a Kubernetes security platform, has announced the release of sKan, a command line tool that allows developers, DevOps and Kubernetes application builders access to the Alcide Security Platform. sKan enables developers to scan Kubernetes configuration and deployment files as part of their application development lifecycle including CI pipelines. Developers can scan their Kubernetes deployment files, Helm charts or Kustomized resources. Alcide is a Kubernetes-native AI-driven security platform for cross Kubernetes aspects such as configuration risks, visibility across clusters,

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NetApp’s Project Astra Aims To Unite Persistent Storage, Kubernetes

Source:- Project Astra is targeted at what NetApp called a big drawback to increased adoption of Kubernetes, namely the lack of persistent storage as containerized applications and data are moved between devops through production or between clouds and on-prem. NetApp on Wednesday unveiled a new initiative aimed at bringing enterprise-class storage services to the Kubernetes container platform as a way to manage applications and data as they move between on-premises and multi-cloud environments. The initiative, named Project Astra, is not

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Circonus Announces Availability of Spring 2020 Release with Kubernetes and Cloud Monitoring

Source:-dbta.com Circonus, provider of a machine data intelligence platform, has announced its Spring 2020 release. The release includes a Kubernetes monitoring solution that provides health-based alerting and horizontal pod auto-scaling, cloud monitoring, GCP Marketplace availability, performance improvements, and a more comprehensive Terraform integration. With these latest enhancements, Circonus says the solution can collect and analyze IT infrastructure, application, and container data at extreme scale across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid deployments in one platform. “Unlike traditional monitoring tools, the Circonus machine

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Kubernetes 1.18 adds more power, addresses shortcomings

Source:-theserverside.com Kubernetes is no doubt a powerful technology, but it has its shortcomings. For example, debugging under Kubernetes has always been a challenge. When it started out, Kubernetes was intended to run on Linux systems, and running Kubernetes under Windows has yet to achieve its full potential. Also, there are still troubles with how to manage unintended changes that that could corrupt an entire Kubernetes cluster. Kubernetes 1.18 promises to provide several features that will address these shortcomings. Let’s look

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Go Beyond Default Kubernetes Configs for Greater Security

Source:-containerjournal.com Some organizations might be inclined to go with Kubernetes’ default configurations with the hope that these settings will provide a reasonable degree of security. But that wouldn’t be a good idea; on the contrary, organizations could actually put themselves at risk by implementing default settings in their Kubernetes environments, as these standard options don’t elevate security to where it needs to be. Fortunately, organizations can address these shortcomings by choosing some custom settings that provide them and their data

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VMware Delivers More Tanzu Services for Kubernetes

Source:-containerjournal.com VMware has moved its effort to embrace Kubernetes forward by making elements of its Tanzu portfolio of services for building, deploying and managing applications in Kubernetes environments more broadly available. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, which provides a service for managing any distribution of Kubernetes, is now generally available along with version 1.7 of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition, formerly known as the VMware Enterprise PKS distribution of Kubernetes. Version 2.9 of Tanzu Application Service, a runtime environment for Java, .Net

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Kubernetes architecture for beginners

Source:-enterprisersproject.com Getting started with Kubernetes? Check out this quick primer on Kubernetes architecture basics and key facts to know at the outset Kubernetes’ reputation as a powerful platform, especially for cloud-native applications, is deserved. It offers a rich, flexible set of capabilities. This reputation also includes a learning curve that can be steep for beginners, especially if you’re trying to go it your own way with the open source platform. “Kubernetes is deceptively simple to set up initially, but then

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HOW TO MANAGE SECRETS IN KUBERNETES

Source:-analyticsindiamag.com Kubernetes is currently the de-facto standard for container orchestration. As organizations globally are adopting a Container first development approach, a large part of existing workloads is still running on virtual machines, be in the public cloud or a private data centre. Hence a lot of companies are now facing severe challenges in migrating from their old methods to Kubernetes. However, there are times when you want bake-in sensitive secret information into your Kubernetes cluster and share it across when

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Identifying risk when executing your Kubernetes migration

Source:-armory.io Software continues to “eat the world”, and organizations are struggling to keep up. With the increasing pace of business and consumer expectations, enterprises in the Global 2000 are undertaking costly “digital transformations” to stay competitive. When speaking to bank executives, they’ll tell us, “We’re not a bank; we’re a software company that specializes in finance.” When speaking to retail executives, they’ll tell us, “We’re not a shoe company; we’re a software company that specializes in shoes.” Digital transformation is

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Observability: Solving The Hidden Cost of Kubernetes Applications

Source: containerjournal.com Kubernetes, in many ways, has allowed software organizations to realize the benefits of microservices by providing a convenient and powerful abstraction for deploying, scaling and running distributed software systems. Those benefits, however, have come at a cost for traditional software operations. Indeed, as microservices have grown in complexity and scale, teams have often struggled to adapt to the hidden costs that these powerful new technologies have uncovered—spiraling monitoring costs, misunderstanding or not understanding service dependencies, the creation of

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Managing Infrastructure from Kubernetes with the HashiCorp Terraform Operator

Source:-infoq.com HashiCorp has released the alpha version of Terraform operator for Kubernetes to manage infrastructure as code calling Terraform Cloud from Kubernetes. After installing the operator, users can synchronize Terraform workspaces using Kubernetes manifests. Then, applications running in Kubernetes can reference Terraform outputs using ConfigMaps. For now, this operator only works for Terraform Cloud. The Terraform operator was created for use cases where developers want to provision infrastructure like a queue in AWS SQS using the Kubernetes interface. To get

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How to Use Nexus Repository and Helm for CI/CD

Source:-securityboulevard.com Helm is the first and the most popular package manager for Kubernetes. It allows DevOps teams to version, distribute, and manage Kubernetes applications. Although one can live with standard kubectl commands and Kubernetes manifest YAML files, when organisations work on microservice architecture — with hundreds of containers interacting with each other — it becomes a necessity to version and manage the Kubernetes manifests. Helm is now becoming a standard for managing Kubernetes applications and a necessary skill for anyone

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Alcide Advances DevSecOps in Kubernetes Environments

Source:-containerjournal.co Alcide is moving to advance the adoption of best DevSecOps practices among developers of containerized applications running on Kubernetes platforms by making its container security platform available via a command-line interface (CLI). Company CTO Gadi Naor says Alcide sKan makes it easier for developers to scan source code for vulnerabilities within the context of existing DevOps processes. That approach is critical because it means developers can invoke a cybersecurity tool without having to substantially alter their existing workflow processes, he says.

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How to scale Kubernetes: 3 factors

Source:-techrepublic.com Kubernetes is becoming the container orchestrator of choice. It even holds the ability to scale applications up with demand–if you know how to configure it. After Docker provided a small, lightweight virtual machine that could run on your laptop, Kubernetes came next to provide a real production cluster. As it turns out, running a production cluster is complex work. For example, Kubernetes does not come “out of the box” with the tools to manage scaling. In this article, I’ll

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Container logging tips for IT troubleshooting and more

Source:-searchitoperations.techtarget.com Don’t just leave container log data on a host and forget about it. Instead, establish a detailed strategy to index, search, correlate and analyze that data. Containers have become a welcome approach to accommodate vital processes such as continuous development, automation and immutable infrastructure. But containers are ephemeral and can proliferate rapidly as workload needs change — which makes container management and maintenance critical. Logs and log management are at the core of a container management strategy, enabling container

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New Tool for Kubernetes Shifts Security Left

Source:-adtmag.com Alcide, an Israel-based provider of Kubernetes security solutions, today released a new command-line tool designed to allow developers, DevOps pros and Kubernetes app builders to scan their Kubernetes configuration and deployment files as part of their app development process, and to deploy it into their continuous integration (CI) pipelines. Called sKan, the tool is free, open source and available now from the company Web site. Effectively, the new tool provides “a software translation of DevSecOps culture” and shifts security

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VMware overhauls NSX software to manage, secure larger virtual networks

Source:-networkworld.com VMware NSX-T 3.0 includes improved baked-in security and network control functions. VMware has pumped out a key version of its core networking software with over 100 new features and added security and application-management support all designed to help customers build and run large scale virtual networks. These enhancements are part of NSX-T30, the latest version of VMware’s flagship networking package that supports everything from private or public cloud-native applications to bare-metal workloads running on multivendor hypervisors. It also supports

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Docker’s Compose specification is now an open standard

Source:-techcentral.ie System for creating applications from multiple containers is now available on GitHub for all to contribute to Docker Compose, the system created by Docker to define multi-container applications, is now to be developed as an open standard. The Compose Specification, as the new standard is called, is meant to allow Compose-created apps to work on other multi-container definition systems on platforms such as Kubernetes and Amazon Elastic Container Service. Until now, Compose existed only in its Docker implementation, and

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