Helm is an open source project that enables developers to create packages of containerized apps to make installation much simpler. Up until now, it was a sub-project of Kubernetes, the popular container orchestration tool, but as of today it is a stand-alone project. Both Kubernetes and Helm are projects managed by the Cloud Native Computing […]
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As Kubernetes grows, a startup ecosystem develops in its wake
Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration tool, came out of Google several years ago and has gained traction amazingly fast. With each step in its growth, it has created opportunities for companies to develop businesses on top of the open source project. The beauty of open source is that when it works, you build a […]
View More As Kubernetes grows, a startup ecosystem develops in its wakeKubernetes stands at an important inflection point
Last week at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon in Copenhagen, we saw an open source community coming together, full of vim and vigor and radiating positive energy as it recognized its growing clout in the enterprise world. Kubernetes, which came out of Google just a few years ago, has gained acceptance and popularity astonishingly rapidly — and […]
View More Kubernetes stands at an important inflection pointUpbound grabs $9 M Series A to automate multi-cloud management
Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration tool, does a great job of managing a single cluster, but Upbound, a new Seattle-based startup wants to extend this ability to manage multiple Kubernetes clusters across multi-cloud environment. It’s a growing requirement as companies deploy ever-larger numbers of clusters and choose a multi-vendor approach to cloud infrastructure services. […]
View More Upbound grabs $9 M Series A to automate multi-cloud managementDigitalOcean launches its container platform
DigitalOcean is getting into the container game. While it’s still best known for its affordable virtual private server hosting, the company’s ambition is to become a major player in the cloud computing space. Hosting was just the first part of that plan, and with its Spaces storage services, for example, it signaled its future plans. […]
View More DigitalOcean launches its container platformGoogle Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring helps developers find problems in Kubernetes apps
In the world of DevOps, developers ship code and operations deals with all the managing, monitoring and troubleshooting, but Google Cloud has found that it sometimes it makes more sense to put some of these responsibilities back in the hands of the developers. Today, the company announced the Beta release of Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring, a […]
View More Google Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring helps developers find problems in Kubernetes appsRedHat’s CoreOS launches a new toolkit for managing Kubernetes applications
CoreOS, the Linux distribution and container management startup Red Hat acquired for $250 million earlier this year, today announced the Operator Framework, a new open source toolkit for managing Kubernetes clusters. CoreOS first talked about operators in 2016. The general idea here is to encode the best practices for deploying and managing container-based applications as code. […]
View More RedHat’s CoreOS launches a new toolkit for managing Kubernetes applicationsMicrosoft’s Azure Container Instances are now generally available
If you wanted to play modern software development buzzword bingo, talking about Azure Container Instances (ACI) would surely help you tick a few boxes. The service, which made its debut last July and which is now generally available, gives developers a serverless way to run Linux and Windows containers that frees them from having to […]
View More Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances are now generally availableHasura snares $1.6 M seed for developer-focused Kubernetes solution
Kubernetes has gained in popularity quickly over the last 18 months, but like many highly technical solutions it requires a level of expertise many companies are lacking. A Bangalore/San Francisco startup called Hasura hopes to simplify all of that with a managed Kubernetes solution built with developers in mind. Today, the company announced a $1.6 […]
View More Hasura snares $1.6 M seed for developer-focused Kubernetes solutionHeptio launches an open source load balancer for Kubernetes and OpenStack
Heptio is one of the more interesting companies in the container ecosystem. In part, that’s due to the simple fact that it was founded by Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, two of the three engineers behind the original Kubernetes project, but also because of the technology it’s developing and the large amount of funding it […]
View More Heptio launches an open source load balancer for Kubernetes and OpenStackKubernetes and Cloud Foundry grow closer
Containers are eating the software world — and Kubernetes is the king of containers. So if you are working on any major software project, especially in the enterprise, you will run into it sooner or later. Cloud Foundry, which hosted its semi-annual developer conference in Boston this week, is an interesting example for this. Outside […]
View More Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry grow closerGitLab gets a native integration with Google’s Kubernetes Engine
GitLab, one of the most popular self-hosted Git services, has been on a bit of a roll lately. Barely two weeks after launching its integration with GitHub, the company today announced that developers on its platform can now automatically spin up a cluster on Google’s Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and deploy their applications to it with […]
View More GitLab gets a native integration with Google’s Kubernetes Engine