Google maintains that the formation of its Open Usage Commons (OUC) group to initially house a trio of its projects – including the Istio service mesh – does not impact its ongoing commitment to already established open source…

Google’s decision to move the Istio service mesh project into a newly formed open source organization focused on protecting the trademark of open source projects instead of into an already established open source organization is not sitting well…

Kubernetes has made it incredibly easy to build distributed applications out of large numbers of microservices. Monitoring, or even accurately tracking, the interaction between each of these services can be a significant operational challenge. Service meshes, built around…

Google has launched a new organization to manage trademarks for open source projects. The Open Usage Commons will help projects “assert and manage their project identity through programs specific to trademark management and conformance testing,” according to a…

In a microservices world, applications consist of dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of components. Manually deploying and verifying deployment quality in production is virtually impossible. Kubernetes, which natively supports rolling updates, enables blue-green application deployments with Spinnaker. However,…

Guest Post by Alon Berger, Technical Marketing Engineer, Alcide Since 2017, Kubernetes has soared and has played a key role within the cloud-native computing community. With this movement, more and more companies who already embraced microservices realized that…

Istio service mesh has a control plane that is responsible for configuring the proxies, enforcing policies, and observing communication through telemetry collection. According to Istio security best practices, securing the control plane should be as important as securing…

What a difference a year makes. Kubernetes has been one of the most prominent open-source projects in cloud computing over the last several years, sparking its own conference that more than 8,000 people are expected to attend this…

Working with complex systems means that even well written code can behave in unexpected ways, leading to outages and critical issues. Kubernetes allows you to easily rollout new code and quickly revert to safe, stable releases when issues…

This guest post was written by Neeraj Poddar, Platform Lead, Aspen Mesh Are you considering or using a service mesh to help manage your microservices infrastructure? If so, here are some basics on how a service mesh can…