Nutanix to run Karbon- Kubernetes clusters in no-network isolation zone

Source:-blocksandfiles.com V.20 of Nutanix’s Karbon front end wrapper for Kubernetes will enable Kubernetes clusters to run in a network-free isolation zone. At time of writing, Nutanix had not officially announced Karbon 2.0, but Alexander Ervik Johnsen, Nutanix senior system engineer, discussed some features of the upgrade last week in a blog – currently 404ing: “Nutanix Karbon 2.0 introduces the availability of the Karbon Air Gap and Kubernetes upgrades. You can upgrade the Kubernetes version of your cluster using 
 karbonctl

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Introduction to Kubernetes architecture

Source:-redhat.com If you know only the basics of Kubernetes, you know it’s an open source container orchestration platform designed for running distributed applications and services at scale. But you might not understand its components and how they interact. Let’s take a brief look at the design principles that underpin Kubernetes, then explore how the different components of Kubernetes work together. Kubernetes design principles The design of a Kubernetes cluster is based on 3 principles, as explained in the Kubernetes implementation

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Retail software firm takes broad view of Kubernetes security

Source:-searchitoperations.techtarget.com Kubernetes platform security has supplanted container-level security for enterprises such as retail software vendor Aptos as they deploy microservices in production. Kubernetes security has become the focal point for protecting cloud-native workloads among enterprises as they deploy containers and microservices in production. Initially, container security specialists such as Aqua, Twistlock and StackRox focused on scanning container images within the DevOps pipeline, then added container runtime scans for live production environments through agents deployed on individual hosts. More recently, however,

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Dynatrace deepens AIOps ties with Kubernetes monitoring

Source:-searchitoperations.techtarget.com Dynatrace has expanded the number of metrics it can feed into its Davis AIOps engine from Kubernetes infrastructure, thereby enhancing autoremediation features for container workloads. Dynatrace has sharpened its Kubernetes monitoring tools and brushed up its ability to apply AIOps to the container orchestration platform, in response to further growth in cloud-native application development among enterprises. Dynatrace’s AIOps engine, Davis, now collects metric data from the Kubernetes API and Prometheus time-series monitoring tool about Kubernetes clusters, including pods, nodes

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The top 5 DevOps trends: What being mainstream means to your team

Source:-techbeacon.com The past year was a landmark in terms of DevOps adoption. According DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), 2019 saw the pool of “elite” performers in DevOps practices triple. “For the last year or two, we’ve heard from several industry analysts that DevOps has ‘crossed the chasm,’ and now our data supports that,” said Nicole Forsgren, founder of DORA and head of the Research and Strategy Group for Google Cloud, about the 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps Report. In short,

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Dynatrace Announces Updates To Its Infrastructure Monitoring & Expands Kubernetes Support

Source:-storagereview.com Today at the Perform 2020 conference, Dynatrace announced the next generation of its Infrastructure Monitoring module in its all-in-one Software Intelligence Platform. The latest generation platform will include upgrades such as enhanced AI, expanded out-of-the-box observability and the ability to create custom metrics from log events. The company has also announced expanded support for Kubernetes with its explainable AI engine, Davis, now automatically ingesting additional Kubernetes events and metrics, enabling it to deliver precise answers in real time about

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Cisco Accelerates Applications in a Hybrid Multicloud World

Source:-albawaba.com Businesses are realizing that applications are the business and the gateway to their customers. 78 percent of customers say their expectations of digital experiences are growing*. As companies pivot towards becoming app-centric businesses, it places enormous strain on enterprise IT, exposing dangerous silos between teams and technologies. To help businesses address the increasing demand for flawless digital experiences, Cisco today unveiled a multi-domain approach that bridges application and infrastructure teams with full-stack visibility and operational insight, allowing both real-time

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Dynatrace extends Kubernetes support, observability goes ‘full-stack’

Source:-computerweekly.com Dynatrace used its Perform conference 2020 in Las Vegas this week to announced new enhancements to its support for Kubernetes. The company’s explainable AI engine Davis now ‘automatically ingests’ additional Kubernetes events and metrics, enabling it to deliver ‘precise’ answers in real time about performance issues and anomalies across the full stack of Kubernetes clusters, containers and workloads. Dynatrace now also automatically discovers, instruments and maps heterogeneous container technologies within Kubernetes. The company says that this makes even the

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4 COMPANIES THAT ARE VOCAL ABOUT THEIR LOVE FOR KUBERNETES

Source:-techgenix.com Microservices has changed the face of application development. Several organizations have been experimenting with microservices for a while now and a huge number of these companies have already changed the way they develop applications. Microservices and containers are just made for each other. Containers are smaller components of an application that take lesser time to set up and use way fewer resources than VMs. Containers are also completely walled off from each other and this helps your microservices-based application

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Kubernetes Operators: 4 facts to know

Source:-enterprisersproject.com Without real automation, you won’t realize the full potential of containers. That’s where Kubernetes Operators play a growing role. Here’s what IT leaders should know A principal promise of Kubernetes is that it will enable the automation of much of the operational toil that comes with modern applications and infrastructure. Kubernetes Operators, then, could be thought of as a means of paying off on that promise. What is a Kubernetes Operator? Let’s back up for a moment and define

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A brief history of VMware, containers and its competitors

Source:-searchvmware.techtarget.com VMware has long been synonymous with virtualization. However, with the rise of containers, the vendor has pivoted strategies to compete with the likes of Red Hat and Docker. VMware got off to a slow start in the container market, but recently, the vendor has made moves to improve its standing there. Early returns point to potential but not guaranteed gains as the market continues to take shape. Enterprise interest in containers is rising. By 2022, more than 75% of

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How to Improve Cloud Native API Management

Source:-thenewstack.io APIs are now the essential building blocks of digital businesses. The advantages they offer DevOps today include: bringing new demands for organizations to create and monetize APIs and API products. maximizing application adoption and reuse across internal and external APIs. ensuring API security. supporting cloud environments that increasingly rely on Kubernetes, microservices, service meshes and CI/CD. WSO2 API Manager 3.0 helps to improve API-management capabilities while addressing both API developer and consumer requirements. Notable among all the new functions

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Why Kubernetes job searches grew by 2,125% in 4 years

Source:-techrepublic.com The most popular Kubernetes-related tech roles include DevOps engineer, software engineer, and cloud engineer. Find out how to kick off your career. Kubernetes is the king of container management. Between October 2015 and October 2019—a mere four-year timespan—the share of Kubernetes job searches increased by 2,125%. Kubernetes-related jobs per million also grew by 2,141% in that same time period, according to a blog post from Seen by Indeed. SEE: What is Kubernetes? (free PDF) (TechRepublic) “Kubernetes gained dominance by

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Four DevOps Trends for 2020

Source:-finextra.com Last year, I put together a few thoughts on what I saw as the emerging DevOps trends for 2019. As we enter a new year and decade, I thought it might be useful to do the same for 2020. A common theme in this year’s trends concerns the way in which firms are dealing with delivering services at scale in the cloud, which I think could be a grand trend for the decade – so one I wanted highlight

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Give your Edge an Adrenaline Boost: Using Kubernetes to Orchestrate FPGAs and GPU

Source:-businessghana.com Over the past year, we’ve been experimenting with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) to improve edge compute performance and reduce the overall cost of edge deployments. Unless you’ve been under a rock for the past 2 years, you’ve heard all the excitement about edge computing. For the uninitiated, edge computing allows for applications that previously required special hardware to be on customer premises to run on systems located near customers. These workloads require either very

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What is Kubernetes? An explainer for marketers

Source:-martechtoday.com As businesses look to rebuild their technology infrastructure, many are adopting Kubernetes platforms, a move that has implications for marketing and marketing operation teams. Amy Gesenhues on January 29, 2020 at 8:56 am MORE Chicory, a data platform that enables shoppable recipes, needed to rebuild its technology infrastructure. Because the company relies heavily on being able to access and utilize data in near real-time — analyzing millions of interactions on a daily basis with recipes, ingredients and food brands

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Azure Kubernetes (AKS) Security Best Practices – Part 1 of 4

Source:-securityboulevard.com Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), launched in June 2018, has become one of the most popular managed Kubernetes services. Like any infrastructure platform or Kubernetes service, though, the Azure customer has to make important decisions and formulate a plan for creating and maintaining secure AKS clusters. While many of these requirements and responsibilities apply to all Kubernetes clusters, regardless of where they are hosted, AKS also has some specific requirements that the platform users must consider and act on

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Cisco Simplifies On-Prem Kubernetes for Its HyperFlex HCI Customers

Source:-datacenterknowledge.com The company leads with containers-as-a-service on-prem as it kicks off its big Barcelona show. Cisco kicked off its big Cisco Live! conference in Barcelona Tuesday by rolling out a plug-and-play Kubernetes software package for its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure stack and updates to Cisco management tools that help enterprise IT and application teams stay on the same page. The new HyperFlex Application Platform is an integrated “container-as-a-service” offering that allows IT shops to easily install, manage, and maintain a Kubernetes

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Cisco Unveils Kubernetes Platform

Source:-containerjournal.com Cisco Systems today launched a Cisco Hyperflex Application Platform that marks the first time the company has made available a hyperconverged platform available that comes pre-installed with a distribution of Kubernetes. Eugene Kim, a product marketing manager within the data center group at Cisco, says the Cisco Hyperflex Application Platform is also integrated with Cisco Intersight analytics software for infrastructure and AppDynamics application performance management software. These technologies together aim to increase the appeal of the platform to organizations

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Best Practices for Kubernetes deployments from Portshift

Source:-appdevelopermagazine.com Portshift presents five security best practices for DevOps and development professionals managing Kubernetes deployments. Integrating these security measures into the CI/CD pipeline will assist organizations in the detection and remediation of security issues earlier in the development process, allowing faster and shorter cycles while assuring safe and secure deployments. The use of containers continues to rise in popularity in enterprise environments, increasing the need for a means to manage and orchestrate them. There’s no dispute that Kubernetes (K8s) has

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