SOFTWARE Three FOSS projects for developers, procrastinators, and media wranglers Prism tracks AI emissions, Super Productivity keeps tasks local, and TAMOSS brings the BBC's media API to Kubernetes
Virtualization Bare metal cloud servers now cheaper and more readily available than on-prem hardware, says Nutanix CEO Hyperscalers can get hardware before enterprise vendors and buyers don't much care where they land
Software Kubernetes explains the release that kills Ingress NGINX with Japanese poetry and art Release team sets new standard for release notes by linking between Version 1.36 and classic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Virtualization Nutanix to add KubeVirt support to run VMs on K8s at the edge Arm support is on the agenda, too, because AI is going to run on everything
On-Prem Call your existing automation ‘zero-token architecture’ to become an instant agentic AI wiz Kubernetes luminary Kelsey Hightower thinks IT pros need to get smart about thriving in a world that’s trying to hide deep tech
Virtualization Nutanix brings its K8s to bare metal because hardware matters again Expands compatibility since it's tough to buy the boxes you want right now
Off-Prem Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter After decades in the trenches, this engineer is done with hype cycles
Security Kubernetes overlords decide Ingress NGINX isn’t worth saving Maintenance to end next year after ‘helpful options’ became ‘serious security flaws’
Systems Bring complexity under control with enterprise-grade Kubernetes No, it'll probably never be a doddle – but you don't have to take the hard way when deploying Kubernetes, says Nutanix
Software Another one bites the dust as KubeSphere kills open source edition Company blames license violations and infrastructure changes for abrupt move
Devops Why rapid proliferation of cloud native apps requires faster, more efficient toolsets Kubernetes enables easy, rapid AI app development, making it the industry standard for AI workloads
Devops Why brave the jet lag? KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China have the answers The cloud native world is evolving fast — and not just in Silicon Valley. Why your next stop should be Hong Kong
Patches Public-facing Kubernetes clusters at risk of takeover thanks to Ingress-Nginx flaw How many K8s systems are sat on the internet front porch like that ... Oh, thousands, apparently
Edge + IoT ATMs in the Amazon: Edge is crossing its tipping point, says SUSE CTO Sending Kubernetes and AI into orbit as devices move from 'glorified sensors' to 'decision-making'
Patches Don't want your Kubernetes Windows nodes hijacked? Patch this hole now SYSTEM-level command injection via API parameter *chef's kiss*
Security Critical default credential in Kubernetes Image Builder allows SSH root access It's called leaving the door wide open – especially in Proxmox
Software Feel free to ignore GenAI for now – a new kind of software developer is being born Kubernetes whizz says devs can redefine their roles and capitalize on coding ML rewards
Software Kelsey Hightower: If governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it Kubernetes doyen talks to The Reg about keeping coders coding
Off-Prem Alibaba Cloud claims K8s service meshes can require more resources than the apps they run Built its own replacement – Canal Mesh – that it says leaves Google's Istio and Ambient eating dust
Networks Um, what ever did happen with network automation? Is it lingering somewhere between fusion power and self-driving cars?
Devops K8s celebrates KuberTENes: A decade of working together Give yourselves a pat on the back - all 88,000 of you
Storage Nutanix starts thinking outside the VM – with extra help from Dell Brings its storage stack to AWS's EKS but still has time to improve its hypervisor
AI + ML With Run:ai acquisition, Nvidia aims to manage your AI kubes Now Jensen has a control plane to play with his army of NIMs
Offbeat How would you sum up a decade of Kubernetes? The CNCF is looking for a tenth anniversary logo
Devops Docker launches Testcontainers on former rival Red Hat's OpenShift CEO Scott Johnston on company pivots and trying not to surprise the community
Software CNCF boss talks 'irrational exuberance' in an AI-heavy Kubecon keynote Kubecon? More like Queuecon as Paris show's registration system experiences temporary borkage
PaaS + IaaS Companies flush money down the drain with overfed Kubernetes cloud clusters Just 13% of provisioned CPUs, 20% of memory utilized, study finds
CxO GitOps pioneer Weaveworks unravels after funding fabric frays Company burned through $61.6M in investment
Software Kubernetes' Tim Hockin on a decade of dominance and the future of AI in open source Going back to a time before autocomplete
Software The Cloud Native Computing Foundation leaps aboard the AI bandwagon Nice tech, but poke underneath and you'll find Kubernetes
Security Unpatched NGINX ingress controller bugs can be abused to steal Kubernetes cluster secrets Just tricks, no treats with these 3 vulns
Software If the Linux Foundation was a software company, it'd be the biggest in the world The Kubernetes circus hits Shanghai and ponders how to connect engineers
Off-Prem Automating cloud infrastructure: Do you want APIs with that? Flipping the script to a control plane
Off-Prem D2iQ's AI Navigator ready to answer your deepest cloud concerns Kubernetes configuration laid bare by chatbot, customer context next on roadmap
Devops From browser brat to backend boss: Will WASM win the web wars? WebAssembly is getting a lot of hype, but is it the game-changer some think it is?
OSes Microsoft has made Azure Linux generally available. Repeat, Azure Linux Come for the Kubernetes, stay for the containers
Channel Dell pulls storage, PCs, and compute into Apex ITaaS platform – a little late Continues feeding the hybrid cloud monster
Software What's your Mean Time To Innocence – the time needed to prove that mess is not your problem ServiceNow reckons it can shrink it with integrated cloudy observability
Science China accelerates drive for scientific self-sufficiency Plus: Grab's custom GitOps; Alipay's RISC-V payments push; NTT Data's solar wrap plan; and more
PaaS + IaaS Civo, Intel stuff Kubernetes inside a secure enclave All part of the cloud provider's Confidential Computing push
PaaS + IaaS Akamai to expand Linode into a cloud so good you’ll want your data to leave it Promises tiny egress costs and a better way to do distributed microservices
Virtualization VMware acknowledges the wisdom of never buying version 1.0 of a product To get you upgrading faster, vSphere will now be released for Initial Availability before reaching General Availability
Virtualization VMware reckons 20% of server cores can come back to work thanks to vSphere 8 and SmartNICs Re-composes automation and management tools as ‘Aria’, reduces cloud hardware requirements, tries to reinvent security ... again
Software Red Hat OpenShift adds heterogenous clusters mixing x86, Arm Tech preview is Azure-only for now, adding to previous AWS Arm adventures
On-Prem AWS adds bare metal support to EKS Anywhere And throws some cold water on the 'K8s works best inside a VM' argument
Devops 381,000-plus Kubernetes API servers 'exposed to internet' Firewall isn't a made-up word from the Hackers movie, people
Devops GitLab version 15 goes big on visibility and observability GitOps fans can take a spin on the free tier for pull-based deployment
Devops Red Hat Kubernetes security report finds people are the problem Puny human brains baffled by K8s complexity, leading to blunder fears
Storage Kasten by Veeam adds ransomware detection to K10 data management platform Catching compromise attempts before kicking off that recovery plan
SaaS CNCF sinks Dockershim with Kubernetes 1.24 launch Docker container runtime will no longer ship by default with K8s
Virtualization Containers may be more effective than VMs for hybrid apps – Gartner Sure, licensing is a mess. Packaging, distribution in good shape, tho
Devops NSA spies ample opportunities to harden Kubernetes You can trust them, they probably know all the weak spots. Ahem.
Devops Kubernetes container runtime CRI-O has make-me-root flaw Cr8escape priv-escalation bug opens the door to cluster takeovers
Databases DataStax updates K8ssandra to help Cassandra operate worldwide Shares multi-cluster lessons from DBaaS in Kubernetes project
Devops You should read Section 8 of the Unix User's Manual And see the importance of open and accessible operations
Virtualization VMware pulls physical to virtual conversion tool, adds VM to container conversion tool Physical to virtual conversion tool will be back once modernised, but this is still quite a moment
Security Open-source Kubernetes tool Argo CD has a high-severity path traversal flaw: Patch now Craft Helm chart, receive secrets
OSes New tools to simplify wrapping your head around Kubernetes Where to begin when you're ready to get your K8s on
PaaS + IaaS The big AWS event: 120 announcements but nothing has changed Our wrap-up: Instant Glacier storage, Kubernetes at AWS, Adobe pops up despite Microsoft partnership, and more
Personal Tech You've seen the Raspberry Pi CM4 in a mini-ITX case. Now here's four in a mini-ITX case How to coordinate 16 Arms
SaaS So it turns out Google would like to pass Knative to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation after all That means the 'forseeable future' at Mountain View is... about two years
Devops Microsoft introduces Azure Container Apps with scale to zero Kubernetes under the covers, with a Microsoft flavour
Off-Prem As UK-based Civo's Kubernetes service goes live, boss claims the big cloud rivals are overpriced 'There's a misconception in the industry that hyperscalers are cheap'
Virtualization Google adds VM support to Anthos, admits not everyone is ready for containerised everything VMware will love this – it works by connecting to vSphere or by managing VMs with Anthos
PaaS + IaaS If your head's not in the cloud, you're not in the right place 'Where are the k8s kids?' ask corporates as they can't pay, won't pay
Software Open Source Jobs Report: Explosive cloud growth knocks Linux off top spot for desired skillsets 455% hike in demand for Kubernetes qualifications causes a stir
On-Prem AWS EKS Anywhere (as long as it's VMware) hits full release Another way to run Kubernetes - though connector to AWS console still in preview, as are plenty of the AWS controllers
PaaS + IaaS This too shall PaaS: VMware's new Tanzu Application Platform explained Plus: We find out why VMware gave up on running Tanzu Application Service on Kubernetes
Virtualization Red Hat buddies up with Nutanix to provide an escape route from VMware 'We have customers saying, help us out of this pickle here, can you possibly just support RHEL running on top of AHV?'
Off-Prem Ably blog claims company doesn't need Kubernetes to scale, surge in traffic takes down entire website 'Well that went well'
Off-Prem Kubernetes a black hole of unpredictable spend, according to new report Companies rely on estimates that are often wrong, says CNCF
Databases Enterprise databases deployed in Kubernetes? Proceed with caution, warns seasoned analyst Deploying the ultimate stateful code in a stateless environment is a 'tricky business' IDC guru opines
Virtualization VMware’s just given its best allies the tool to spread its Tanzu container creed 4000 service provider clouds are based on vSphere — now they’re all capable of running Kubernetes too
Systems Google cosies up to AMD for high-performance scale-out Tau VMs – but makes eyes at Intel and Arm, too New 60 vCPU VMs come with some bold price-performance claims, but AMD needs to stay on its toes
Security Siloscape malware targets Windows containers, breaks through to the underlying Kubernetes cluster Using techniques Microsoft had previously considered 'not a vulnerability'
Security Kubecon 2021: A largely dry and corporate affair where the best bits involved a spot of Kubernetes-hacking roleplay But we heard the message loud and clear – it's pretty much the standard runtime platform now
Security Red Hat open-sources StackRox Kubernetes security product More goodies for OpenShift, plus Konveyor to Kubernetes in association with IBM
Software Flatcar Linux takes the 520, drives up to Redmond: Microsoft acquires Kinvolk It's safe with us, says Microsoft - but wasn't that what Red Hat said about CoreOS Container Linux?
Off-Prem Red Hat OpenShifts gears at summit to pin its future on 'open hybrid cloud' Kubernetes takes centre stage as open-source giant aims to offer OpenShift everywhere
Devops Microsoft welcomes 'raddest' and most 'feature-dense' Kubernetes release to AKS, shows 1.17 the door Mere months to go before 1.21 arrives
PaaS + IaaS IBM Cloud Satellite now available, 'rooted in Red Hat OpenShift,' says CTO Big Blue extends its cloud to run anywhere – including competing public clouds
SaaS Google admits Kubernetes container tech is so complex, it's had to roll out an Autopilot feature to do it all for you More expensive, less flexible, but easier and safer to use
Software Microsoft plugs Active Directory authentication into AKS on Azure Stack HCI Begone foul stash for the secret hash
Off-Prem Survey: Techies reckon open sourcery has better prospects than familiarity with a single vendor's cloud wares Dodging lock-in good for the career as well as the soul
Virtualization VMware completes first year of Tanzu with Advanced Edition GA, announces magic tool for app modernization Enterprise customers 'are struggling with the implementation of Kubernetes at scale' says virty cloud giant
Devops Netherlands minnow Red Kubes releases open-source Community Edition of its Otomi Kubernetes wrangler Easy to use with no big vendor lock-in? Nice idea but it's still early days
SaaS EKS appeal: 'Just snap install' it, says Canonical as AWS's container game goes hybrid Digging into the tech and strategy with compute services veep Deepak Singh
Devops Docker support deprecated in Kubernetes will break your clusters, says CNCF ambassador. It's only the runtime, says Docker Admins have until late 2021 to move away, but Windows containers need caution
Software Christmas comes early for chameleons: SUSE feels jolly after closing Rancher deal Kubernetes, Kubernetes, how shalt I manage thou, Kubernetes?
Devops DataStax releases K8ssandra, the Kubernetes peace offering to the open-source community 'Like any good family, you're going to have fights,' says dev relations bloke
Software Ubuntu 20.10 goes full Raspberry Pi, from desktop to micro clouds: Full fat desktop on a Pi is usable
Devops Microservices guru says think serverless, not Kubernetes: You don't want to manage 'a towering edifice of stuff'
Software No, Kubernetes doesn’t make applications portable, say analysts. Good luck avoiding lock-in, too
Devops VMware supremo Pat Gelsinger makes peace with Microsoft, and Virtzilla pitches Tanzu to the Spring crowd
Devops Microsoft is not the enemy, why Google still runs 'Borg', and other insights from Kubernetes founders
Devops Feeling unInspired? We can't help much with that, but there is a new .NET 5 preview and an Azure DevOps roadmap
Security Apple was the only Fortune 50 company to foresee COVID-19 pandemic risk and properly insure against it – Forrester
Devops 'Boringly reliable': Red Hat architect thinks Kubernetes is 'mostly done' – but there are still plenty of bugs
Devops Talk about a control plane... US Air Force says upcoming B-21 stealth bomber will use Kubernetes
Software Canonical pushes out MicroK8s installer for Mac and Windows, with Multipass VM tech lurking behind the scenes
Devops VMware's Tanzu Application Service for Kubernetes hits beta, will take some time to get production-ready
Devops Long after Linux, Windows Server Containers finally arrive on Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service
Devops AWS revamps Fargate serverless containers, but wait – where's Docker Engine? Ah, 'deemed unnecessary'
Devops Compose yourselves – Docker has published multi-container app spec, needs contributors to help maintain and develop it
SaaS Google polishes platinum Cloud Foundry membership badge as foundation takes KubeCF under its wing
SaaS Microsoft brings K8s Security Center out of preview, replaces CoreOS Container Linux with Flatcar
Devops Google sweetens return of K8s cluster management fees with new SLA, Anthos exclusion ‒ and customers aren't pleased
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Devops Continuous Lifecycle London 2020: Save £100s now – early-bird tix offer ends this week. This is one conference you don't want to miss
Devops Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors to deliver keynote at our fabulous Continuous Lifecycle London conference
Devops Get hands on with Kubernetes, service meshes – and more – at our fantastic Continuous Lifecycle London conference
Devops Who's got my back(up)? Rival schools Trilio and Portworx battle it out for those Kubernetes bucks
Devops Continuous Lifecycle London 2020: Bag your discount early-bird tickets now before our speaker line-up goes live
Devops Just Docker room talk: Container upstart's enterprise wing sold to Mirantis, CEO out, Swarm support faces ax
Software The inevitability of K8s: Pivotal CEO describes the pain and benefits of technology transition
SaaS Car crash: Ford writes down $181m in Pivotal stock as investors claim cloud biz still can't do Kubernetes properly
Devops Share your story: Continuous Lifecycle 2020 call for papers is open NOW – what are you waiting for?
Devops Kubernetes goes in for nip and tuck, comes out with 25 'enhancements': We take a look at v1.15
Devops Come join the Mirantis Kubernetes party, just be sure to BYOD – the D being distro, not drinks
Devops Mirantis teases Kubernetes-as-a-Service to terrorise bare metal, public clouds, everything in between
