VMware acquires Heptio to significantly strengthen kubernet offering
VMware announced today that it is taking over Heptio. In addition, it aims to accelerate the business adoption of cubes in on-premise and multi-cloud environments. The amount of money involved in the takeover, and the conditions under which it was arranged, has not been disclosed.
Today VMware annou... Read more
VMware adds Kubernet support to hybrid cloud solution
VMware has unveiled a new version of its integrated hybrid cloud solution to simplify deployment and management of cloud environments. The new version supports Kubernetes, among other things.
VMware Cloud Foundation claims this is the fastest way to achieve integrated hybrid cloud environments thank... Read more
Google adds new network security options to hosted Kubernetes service
Google has released a new update to its public cloud, hoping it will become a more interesting place to run software container projects. The update adds three new networking controls to the platform's Google Kubernetes Engine service.
This service is a hosted implementation of the Kubernetes framewo... Read more
New Relic acquires CoScale to expand Kubernetes support
New Relic has announced the acquisition of the Belgian company CoScale and its employees. New Relic makes software analytics, CoScale has experience in monitoring Kubernetes environments. The intention is that the company's support for Kubernetes will be expanded with the acquisition, reports ZDNet.... Read more
Cloud Foundry takes additional steps to support Kubernetes
The Cloud Foundry Foundation takes on a number of open-source projects, where it helps to apply the Kubernetes containers more widely within its developer platform. This was about time, because despite the fact that Cloud Foundry is used to build container-based apps, the adoption of Kubernetes did ... Read more
Demand for Kubernetes specialists will grow by 810 percent in two years’ time.
The demand for Kubernetes knowledge is growing rapidly, according to an analysis carried out by CyberArk. Over the past two years, demand for Kubernetes specialists has increased by 810 percent. At the same time, there are concerns about the security of container environments because of the need for... Read more
Kubernetes introduces new security features in version 1.12
Kubernetes version 1.12 has been announced by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The new version comes with several new features, including a new TLS Bootstrapping security feature that has been worked on over the past two years.
Kubernetes is the most prominent orchestration tool for software c... Read more
NetApp acquires StackPointCloud for easier management of Kubernetes platforms
NetApp announced today that it is taking over StackPointCloud. That's a Seattle startup, which makes the use of Kubernetes easier. Kubernets are the main framework for managing clusters of software containers.
Kubernets have proven to be an essential part of modern cloud environments, especially as... Read more