AT&T, Dell to Collaborate on Container Platforms

Source: containerjournal.com AT&T and Dell Technologies have pledged to work together to advance a variety of open source projects starting with the previously launched AirShip initiative, a management framework that combines elements of OpenStack and Kubernetes to declaratively automate cloud provisioning and lifecycle management for containerized applications. In addition to accelerating the next major release of AirShip, both companies will contribute to Metal3-io and OpenStack Ironic, projects dedicated to simplifying the provisioning of Kubernetes and OpenStack on bare-metal servers, respectively.

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Week in review: New Nmap, lateral phishing tactics, Kubernetes security matures

Sourec: helpnetsecurity.com Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and podcasts: Critical Bluetooth flaw opens millions of devices to eavesdropping attacks A newly disclosed vulnerability (CVE-2019-9506) in the Bluetooth Core Specification can be exploited by attackers to intercept and manipulate Bluetooth communications/traffic between two vulnerable devices. Pitfalls to avoid when improving your software development skills The dizzying pace of technological change makes knowledge acquisition and skill development a very big deal in the IT and

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Pivotal CTO: Kubernetes means we’re all distributed systems programmers now

Source: devclass.com Kubernetes is changing the way organisations develop their software and manage their systems. But can we expect it to start changing the nature of organisations themselves? It’s certainly changed the nature of Pivotal – which launched a drive onto Kubernetes last month, not long after being lambasted by financial analysts for scaling back financial targets and being late to the Kubernetes party. We sat down with Cornelia Davis, Pivotal’s CTO at DevOps Enterprise Summit in June. She was

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Containers 102: Kubernetes and the Basics of Container Orchestration

Source: redmondmag.com To know containers is to know Kubernetes, the gold standard for container orchestration and deployment. Here’s an explainer for how Kubernetes works and what makes it tick. In the first installment in this series, you learned about why and how containers became a new paradigm in IT infrastructure. When containers first emerged, there was a quick race to develop a container management system to provide functionality like networking, high availability and — important for database workloads — persisted

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The future of VMware and Kubernetes integrations

Source: techtarget.com Kubernetes has become the most popular platform for managing containers. VMware might have a few opportunities to cash in on that, including vSphere-integrated Kubernetes. The rise of containers could mean a decline in VM popularity. However, if VMware can find a way to integrate the open source container platform Kubernetes with its vSphere or vCenter products, the vendor might have an opportunity to stay relevant in a shifting market landscape. Kubernetes has emerged as the platform of choice

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Kubernetes security matures: Inside the project’s first audit

Source: helpnetsecurity.com Auditing 1.5 million lines of code is a heroic undertaking. With resources provided by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the Kubernetes Project leadership created the Security Audit Working Group to perform an audit in an open, transparent, and repeatable manner, while also paving the way for future Kubernetes security reviews and research. It included members from Google, Red Hat, Salesforce, InGuardians, and input from the broader security community. We felt that the two most critical components of

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Kubernetes open sourced their security audit. What can we learn?

Source: snyk.io Earlier this week, on 6th August, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) published a blog post detailing their recent Kubernetes Security Audit. Last year, the CNCF started their security audit program with three projects: CoreDNS, Envoy, and Prometheus. Since this pilot program was successful, the CNCF is rolling it out to other projects in their ecosystem. Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration engine for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, and is the largest project

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Kubernetes Looks Inside and Finds Security Holes

Source: sdxcentral.com The Kubernetes ecosystem took a look in the security mirror and found it has some work to do in order to ensure a better security posture for the container orchestration platform. The move comes as a rash of Kubernetes security flaws have cropped up over the past eight months. The introspective look came via the first security audit of Kubernetes conducted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which hosts the open source platform. The audit itself was

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How hot is Kubernetes? Even traditional banks are transforming to embrace it

Source: techrepublic.com Kubernetes has become a standard infrastructure API with a gravitational pull that vendors like Red Hat, Mesosphere (now D2IQ), and Pivotal have been unable to escape. If you’re in the business of enabling enterprises to build applications, you’ve got to support Kubernetes. Period For those application-building enterprises, Kubernetes adoption has remained somewhat aspirational, with a 2018 CNCF survey finding 40% of enterprises running Kubernetes in production. Among those 60% not yet on the Kubernetes train you’d expect to

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ClearDATA launches SaaS Solution for healthcare orgs to track patient records within Kubernetes

Source: helpnetsecurity.com ClearDATA, the leader in healthcare public cloud security and compliance, announced a new multi-cloud software offering, ClearDATA Locate, enabling healthcare organizations to build a more cohesive and traceable protected health information (PHI) inventory within Kubernetes workloads available on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure Built with ClearDATA’s Healthcare Aware Distributed Tracing technology, this new software solution makes it easier for healthcare industry professionals to observe sensitive data in transit or at rest in any Kubernetes

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Latest Kubernetes Release Focuses on Continuous Improvement and Stability

Source: www.infoq.com The Kubernetes team launched the 1.15 release on June 19th, 2019, the second release of 2019. According to the release announcement, the goal of the latest version is continuous improvement and extensibility. Kubernetes 1.15 includes new features, such as pruning on custom resource definitions, but relative to previous releases, focuses primarily on stability over enhancements. The majority of enhancements towards stability and extensibility were on custom resource definitions (CRDs). Custom resources is an extension of the Kubernetes API that enables users to add custom

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Powering Edge With Kubernetes: A Primer

Source: containerjournal.com Adoption of Kubernetes into data centers or cloud has been remarkable since it was released in 2014. As an orchestrator of lightweight application containers, Kubernetes has emerged to handle and schedule diverse IT workloads, from virtualized network functions to AI/ML and GPU hardware resources. Kubernetes’ core capabilities have improved exponentially as IT workloads have become more diverse and new technologies introduced. Kubernetes is now being adopted at edge infrastructure, which has fewer capacity resources and a persistent connection to the

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Cisco simplifies Kubernetes container deployment with Microsoft Azure collaboration

Source: networkworld.com Cisco seeks to enhance container deployment with a service to let enterprise customers run containerized applications across both Cisco-based on-premises environments and in the Microsoft Azure cloud. Customers can now further simplify deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters on-premises and in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with one tool, using common identify and control policies, reducing manual tasks and ultimately time-to-market for their application environments, wrote Cisco’s Kip Compton, senior vice president of the company’s Cloud Platform and Solutions group

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Kubernetes shows promise for managing martech compatibility across platforms

Source: martechtoday.com When larger enterprises need a way to keep their martech from spiraling out of control, continuous deployment and integration pipelines from container automation can help. Imagine a world where you can easily manage containerized applications across multiple environments. This is the world of Kubernetes, and learning to implement it will change your life because this model can help marketers manage data more efficiently across platforms. It allows you to have ultimate control over how your applications should run,

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Docker Enterprise 3.0 Brings Docker Kubernetes Services, New Lifecycle Automation Tools, and More

Source:infoq.com After over 2000 people participated in the Docker Enterprise 3.0 public beta program, Docker has announced Docker Enterprise 3.0 GA. This version brings Docker Kubernetes Services (DKS), new lifecycle automation tools for automating deployment of containers and Kubernetes, security enhancements, and more. Docker Enterprise 3.0 introduces Docker Kubernetes Services (DKS). Docker Kubernetes Services is designed to solve the Kubernetes complexity that stems from a lack of intuitive security and manageability configurations that enterprises expect and require. Docker Kubernetes Services

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Ballista: A Distributed Computing Platform Based on Kubernetes and Rust

Source:technotification.com Distributed computing is a model in which components of a system are shared among multiple computers for better efficiency and performance. Andy Grove, a software engineer introduced Ballista, a distributed computing platform. It’s based on Kubernetes and Rust implementation of Apache Arrow. Ballista: A Distributed Computing Platform Based on Kubernetes and Rust According to a blog post by Grove, he started DataFusion project around eighteen months ago. The project was actually an in-memory query engine based on Apache Arrow

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Kubernetes authentication project wrestles with migration problems

Source: techtarget.com GKE users like the Workload Identity feature for Kubernetes authentication with GCP services, but similar improvements to core cluster security present a potential market-wide migration headache. Kubernetes has not only matured, it’s showing a wrinkle or two. In case there was any doubt that Kubernetes is no longer a fledgling project, it has begun to show its age with the accumulation of technical debt, as upstream developers struggle to smooth the migration process for a core set of

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Fairwinds Debuts Open Source Kubernetes Configuration Tool

Source: containerjournal.com Fairwinds today announced the availability of open source Polaris software that can be employed to optimize the configuration of Kubernetes clusters. Available for download or as a service hosted by Fairwinds, Polaris was developed to make it easier to provide a managed service around Kubernetes clusters. Polaris runs a series of checks based on best practices defined by Fairwinds to ensure a Kubernetes cluster is properly and optimally configured. Kubernetes may be one of the most advanced IT

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Pivotal swings to Kubernetes

Source:- devclass.com Pivotal has done a major turn in the direction of Kubernetes, announcing that its flagship PAS platform will run on the container orchestration platform. The announcements come a month after the Dell/VMware backed firm got a roasting from investors over its tardiness embracing Kubernetes, after scaling back its financial forecasts. The new services are not a reaction to that – CEO Rob Mee had flagged up the Kubernetes announcements during the earnings call. But it is notable that they

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Using Helm Charts Tools to Manage Kubernetes Deployments at Delivery Hero

Source:- infoq.com Delivery Hero’s (DH) engineering team wrote about their use of Helm and related tools to simplify management of multiple Kubernetes environments, sensitive data, and configuration. The other tools are helmfile, helm-diff, and helm-secrets. InfoQ reached out to Max Williams, Principal System Engineer at Delivery Hero AG, to gain more insights. Multiple teams at DH use Helm charts to package applications and cluster level tools. Helmfile maintains information about which clusters have which charts installed, analogous to Ansible playbooks. Since

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