Cloud-Native
Vodafone Provides Anonymized Mobile Phone Signal Data To Help Monitor The Spread Of COVID-19 And Inform Early Warning Systems For New Outbreaks
n this blog post I highlight how you can accelerate your application modernization journey by taking advantage of Anthos on bare metal’s support for running on OpenStack. I also introduce the recently published “Deploy Anthos on bare metal on OpenStack” and “Configure the OpenStack Cloud Provider for Kubernetes” guides. I point to different starting points …
How To Add Observability To Your Application Pipeline
Guest post originally published on Snapt’s blog by Iwan Price-Evans In this data-driven world, we capture data for just about everything in our software and hardware. User data, user behaviors, events, data flows, and the inner workings of our servers, virtual machines (VMs), and containers are all recorded. Applications expose ever more data to DevOps and IT …
Kubernetes: What Are The Key Benefits For Companies?
Guest post originally published on SparkFabrik’s blog by SparkFabrik Team Kubernetes, the open-source container orchestration solution, is gaining an increasing amount of popularity – (recent data in fact shows that, in the AWS cloud, it is used by one in three companies. But what are the real benefits of adopting this technology? Typically, 5 key benefits can be identified: reduced application development and …
Lightbend’s Akka Serverless Platform-As-A-Service Generally Available For Stateful Serverless App Development
Lightbend, a company providing cloud-native microservice frameworks for some of the world’s largest brands, today announced the general availability of Akka Serverless, a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that sets a new standard for cloud native application development. Akka Serverless is based on an advanced new architecture that can remove the historical limitations that prevented the development …
How Linkerd Retries HTTP Requests With Bodies
Guest post originally published on Linkerd’s blog by Eliza Weisman Linkerd 2.11 is here and with it are some cool new updates. One I am particularly excited about (full disclosure: I worked on it), is retries for HTTP requests with bodies. Linkerd has supported HTTP retries since version 2.2, but until now, we would only retry requests without bodies. …
VMware Tanzu Advanced Quarterly Update: Driving DevOps Metrics That Matter
It is imperative for DevOps success that operations teams provide a good developer experience and that developers have what they need for productive workflows. When this is done automatically and seamlessly, teams can get code to production faster. However, it’s not enough to get code committed quickly. That code must also be compliant and secure. …
Containerization On The Edge
This work is supported by Second State and FutureWei based on Open Source projects WasmEdge and seL4. Application containers, such as Docker, are a key driving force behind the growth of Cloud Native applications. However, while the Cloud-Native development paradigm has proven very popular, it is difficult to expand the Cloud-Native infrastructure beyond large data centers since application containers require significant amounts …
Cloud Neutrality: Have Cloud Providers Become Too Powerful?
As entire industries quickly move to the cloud, more people rely on three leading cloud service providers. As of now, there is no regulation that could prevent Amazon, Microsoft, or Google from shutting down competing businesses that are hosted on their cloud services. Should we be worried? After angry Americans stormed the Capitol building this January, …
Kubernetes Main Attack Vectors Tree: An Explainer Guide
Kubernetes is a leader in container orchestration. According to Statista, as much as 46% of respondents in a recent survey stated that they used Kubernetes for automating computer application deployments, management, and scaling. However, there are some security issues that we need to address during the container lifecycle phase. This means that you should take steps …
Service Mesh 102: Envoy Configuration
Guest post originally published on Kong’s blog by Scott Lowe In my Service Mesh 101 article, I talked about some of the basics behind a service mesh: what it is, what it does and where Envoy fits into a service mesh. Having now covered those basics, I’d like to dig into some more in-depth content focused on the basics …