A survey of 360 CIOs and IT leaders in the U.S. and the United Kingdom found that, as the number of cloud platforms an organization employs expands, the number of tools they are required to deploy and master does, too. The survey, published this week by Virtana, a provider of a platform for managing cloud […]

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At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 event, Datadog announced it made support for the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) generally available in the agent software it provides to instrument applications. Ilan Rabinovitch, senior vice president of product and community at Datadog, said that capability eliminates the need to install a separate OpenTelemetry collector to aggregate metrics, […]

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In the last few years, DevSecOps has become the security process of choice for many forward-thinking enterprises.  These organizations have come to understand that fixing bugs in the latter stages of product and application development offers no favors to anyone but cybercriminals. So, they have overhauled traditional processes and united development, operations and security teams […]

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At a CDEventscon event this week, the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) announced it is hosting a CDEvents project through which it hopes to create a vendor-neutral specification for defining the format of event data across multiple services, platforms and systems. Andrea Frittoli, open source developer advocate at IBM, co-creator of the CDEvents project and member […]

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The practice of hardcoding secrets—such as authentication credentials, passwords, API tokens and SSH Keys—as non-encrypted plain text into source code or scripts has been common in software development for many years. It is an easy way to save time and labor, but it is also highly insecure. The issue is that anyone with access to […]

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Tableau’s yearly conference is back after a two-year shift to a virtual-only format. The in-person audience was significantly smaller than in previous years; however, enthusiasm amongst attendees – mostly hands-on users including “Tableau Visionaries” and “Tableau Ambassadors,”—that together made up the “Tableau DataFam” was high. I’m not going to run through every announcement at the […]

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What happens when the tools and services you depend on to drive site reliability engineering turns out to be susceptible to reliability failures of their own? That’s the question teams at about 400 businesses presumably asked themselves in the wake of a major outage in Atlassian Cloud. The incident offers a number of insights for […]

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If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, today’s supply chain is in dire straits. A recent infographic from The New York Times shows all too clearly that the international supply chain is in upheaval, due directly or indirectly to the outbreak of COVID-19. At the same time, reams of data generated […]

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At its Futurestack conference, New Relic announced it expanded the integrations and tools it provides for its observability platform and added its first cybersecurity tool. The company now provides more than 470 integrations with cloud services, open source tools and other enterprise technologies, with support for offerings from Akamai, Atlassian, CircleCI, Cloudflare, Netlify, PagerDuty and […]

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DevOps Institute, a professional member association working to advance the humans of DevOps, announced the release of its Upskilling IT 2022 report. In its fourth year, the Upskilling IT report highlights the need to close the DevOps skills gap and identifies emerging job roles within the industry.  Through data collected in the Upskilling IT 2022 […]

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GitLab will include support for pull-based deployment in the platform’s Free tier in an upcoming release, which will provide users increased flexibility, security, scalability, and automation in cloud-native environments. With pull-based deployment, DevOps teams can use the GitLab agent for Kubernetes to automatically identify and enact application changes. “DevOps teams at all levels benefit from […]

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Portworx portfolio advancements provide more data services than ever before while giving DevOps teams greater control over their workstreams   Mountain View, CA, May 16, 2022 – Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world’s most advanced data storage technology and services, today announced a series of updates to its Portworx portfolio which include: […]

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Events management requires quick responses, which can be challenging since there is typically an incredibly large volume of events that take place every day. Therefore, relying on humans to respond to these events quickly is error-prone, messy and often frustrating. These events have easily reproducible steps that can be codified and are perfect reasons for […]

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The growth of SaaS—including IaaS—was phenomenal when it came and it has become somewhat pervasive. Today, there are SaaS tools in use at just about every business, large or small. From sales to marketing to customer management, there is a SaaS tool that does it affordably and well. For now. The same is true of […]

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The global cloud native developer population has grown by 1 million in the last 12 months, according to the Q3 2021 State of Cloud Native Development Report developed for CNCF by SlashData. The company estimates that there are now 7.1 million cloud native developers worldwide. This represents an increase of 51% from our first report […]

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In cloud native computing, the applications are expected to be resilient, loosely coupled, scalable, manageable and observable. Because of containerization, there is a proliferation of microservices and they ship quickly. Microservices environments are more dynamic. In such an environment, making applications resilient means deploying the applications in a fault tolerant manner, but it also means […]

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The CNCF Security Technical Advisory Group (TAG) has just released a refreshed Cloud Native Security Whitepaper v2 to help educate the community about best practices for securing cloud native deployments. The whitepaper intends to provide organizations and their technical leadership with a clear understanding of cloud native security, its incorporation in lifecycle processes, and considerations […]

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Innovator in the crypto economy affirms commitment to cloud native ecosystem Valencia, SPAIN, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe – May 18, 2022 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced that Coinbase has joined the foundation as a Gold member.  Coinbase provides a trusted and easy-to-use platform […]

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New associate certification exam from CNCF and The Linux Foundation will test foundational knowledge and skills using Prometheus, the open source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit Valencia, SPAIN, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe – May 18, 2022 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, and The Linux Foundation, […]

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