Container Journal: “Why Prometheus is an Essential Observability Tool”
March 22, 2021
Prometheus continues to remain as an essential tool for monitoring, and a key component in observability platforms for cloud-native environments in numerous organizations. As one of The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) “fastest-growing” projects, the time series database is especially...
ITProToday: “Who Needs Open Policy Agent?”
March 15, 2021
Open Policy Agent makes it possible to create a single set of configuration rules and deploy them automatically across a large-scale environment.
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 from the...
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) as a...
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 control plane...
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 addition of...
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 rival service...
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 tracing API...
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 has gained...
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 in this...