The five reasons Kubernetes won the container orchestration wars
When I first looked at Kubernetes and the other cloud container orchestration programs, I knew Kubernetes would be the winner. No, ifs, ands or buts about it. The program was clearly so much better...
View ArticleDoomsday Docker security hole uncovered
One of the great security fears about containers is that an attacker could infect a container with a malicious program, which could escape and attack the host system. Well, we now have a security hole...
View ArticleRed Hat CloudForms 4.7 released
There’s an old, wise IT statement: “Never fix what’s broken.” Of course, there’s an equally true tech management thought, which goes: “You snooze, you lose.” So, trying to satisfy both the tortoises...
View ArticleThe top five upcoming cloud developments
Strap yourself in. We’ll be going to some interesting places with the cloud in the near future. 1. Hybrid Cloud Takes Off For the longest time, the hybrid cloud didn’t really go much of anywhere....
View ArticleWhat’s the difference between containers and virtual machines?
I was at a conference recently when I realized the person I was talking with thought that containers were just smaller versions of virtual machines (VM). Ah, no. No, they’re not. Yes, they can function...
View ArticleDocker is in deep trouble
Docker, the technology, is the poster child for containers. But it appears Docker, the business, is in trouble. In a leaked memo, Docker CEO Rob Bearden praised workers — despite the “uncertainty...
View ArticleWith KubeCF, Cloud Foundry comes to Kubernetes
Some people think you need to decide between Cloud Foundry, a prominent open-source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud, and Kubernetes, the wildly popular container orchestration program. That’s never...
View ArticleKubernetes 1.18: Buffing up the leading container orchestrator
Kubernetes is the container orchestrator we all love. But it’s not unconditional love. Some users were a bit overwhelmed with the last release’s Container Storage Interface (CSI) infrastructure update,...
View ArticleNetApp to make stateful applications easier to do in Kubernetes
Most web applications are stateless. These don’t save client data from one session for the client’s next session. A stateful app is one that saves client data from one session to the next. There are...
View ArticleRed Hat takes on the hybrid cloud with its latest OpenShift Kubernetes distro
A popular belief in today’s business circles is that every company is now a tech company. Red Hat — the powerhouse Linux and cloud business — agrees. Nearly every industry, including healthcare,...
View ArticleBest Linux Foundation classes in 2020: Intro to Linux, Cloud Engineer...
Before I started writing about technology, I was a Beltway Bandit. That is, I was an IT contractor working for NASA and the Department of Defense. In those days, my job skills were Unix and mainframe...
View ArticleSUSE to acquire Rancher Labs
SUSE, a major Linux and cloud company, has announced it will acquire Rancher Labs. Based in Cupertino, Rancher is a privately held open-source company with more than 37,000 active users and 10 0million...
View ArticleDocker partners with AWS to smooth container deployments
On July 9, 2020, Docker and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced they would make Docker application developers’ lives easier by streamlining the process of deploying and managing containers from Docker...
View ArticleGitOps: The next step in cloud-native development
What do you get when you combine DevOps management and the Git distributed version control system? Say hello to GitOps. Automation makes software better and more reliable. GitOps takes automation a...
View ArticleMirantis brings secure registries to Kubernetes distros
Thanks to Solarwinds and Log4j, we know it’s all too easy to have our systems busted thanks to software supply chain problems. To help us with this, Mirantis, the cloud and container company, has...
View ArticleStarlingX 6.0, the Edge-Computing Cloud Stack Arrives
The OpenInfra Foundation‘s open source, edge-computing cloud stack StarlingX‘s latest version, StarlingX 6.0 is out and ready to run. It’s optimized for low-latency and high-performance applications....
View ArticleAqua Security’s Trivy Security Scanner Can Scan Anything Now
VALENCIA, Spain — At KubeCon Europe, Aqua Security, the cloud native security provider, announced its open source security scanner Aqua Trivy can scan pretty much anything cloud native related. Such as...
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