ZDNet: “Flux GitOps program becomes a CNCF incubator program”
March 12, 2021
The Flux project is a popular Continuous Delivery (CD) platform that runs on top of Kubernetes. It’s perhaps best known as the program, which defines GitOps. Now, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has promoted Flux...
ITOps Times: “ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Flux”
March 12, 2021
Flux is an open-source GitOps project designed to keep Kubernetes clusters in sync with configuration systems as well as automate any new changes to the configuration. It has been with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)...
DevClass: “Linkerd 2.10 sheds MBs, introduces extensions and opaque ports”
March 11, 2021
Security-focused service mesh Linkerd 2.10 is now available with the promise of bringing the default control plane down to 200MB at startup. The change is down to the Linkerd team stripping the CNCF incubating project’s default...
The New Stack: “Linkerd Goes on a Diet with Opt-In Extensions”
March 11, 2021
Buoyant has released version 2.10 of Linkerd open source service mesh, a release that comes in at 300MB less than its previous version. The newly-trimmed release doesn’t come at the expense of features, but rather the...
Container Journal: “Linkerd Update Simplifies Service Mesh Extensions”
March 11, 2021
The maintainers of the open source Linkerd service mesh project today announced the release of a 2.10 update that makes it simpler to extend the platform. Linkerd, originally developed by Bouyant, provides a lighter-weight alternative to...
InfoQ: “OpenTelemetry Specification Reaches 1.0 with Stability Guarantees and New Release Candidates”
March 7, 2021
The OpenTelemetry specification has been promoted to v1.0.0. This milestone includes improved stability and backwards compatibility guarantees as well as API and SDK release candidates available for a number of languages. With this release both the...
SearchITOperations: “Linkerd ‘opt-in,’ developer accessibility sway IT pros”
March 5, 2021
DevOps teams with Linkerd in production have bypassed the pain that plagues many Istio deployments. The service mesh architecture helps IT teams manage complex networks through a web of specialized code components called sidecar proxies. It...
The New Stack: “HashiCorp Vault Gets Top Honors in Latest CNCF Tech Radar User Survey”
March 4, 2021
HashiCorp Vault grabbed the top honors in the secrets management category in the latest Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Tech Radar report, which covers the “secrets management” tools. Cloud service providers’ built-in offerings are also popular...
SiliconANGLE: “OpenTelemetry attracts major enterprise interest in drive to set common observability standard”
March 1, 2021
Without traffic signals and signage, life would not be pleasant on local streets; motorists would drive in opposing lanes and chaos would ensue. A stop sign is a reliable standard; it means the same thing no...
InfoQ: “Experts Discuss Top Kubernetes Trends and Production Challenges”
February 26, 2021
The lead headline in the recent Cloud Native Computing (CNCF) survey states that the “use of containers in production has increased by 300% since 2016.” With this hyper-growth there comes challenges that users are grappling with,...