Release Management
Istio 1.7 delivers hybrid cloud features
By Steve Dake, Open Source Leader, Cloud Native, IBM Today’s Istio 1.7 release offers significant improvements to Istio’s operational experience. Several new feature improvements, including control plane upgrades, virtual machine integration, and a central Istiod experience, make Istio easier to operate and expands its capabilities for hybrid cloud environments. This blog post introduces you to new […]
Google Exposes Old Wounds in Open Source Community
Things boiled over a bit last week with the announcement that Google launched the Open Usage Commons (OUC) consortium (see Mike Vizard’s article here). The announcement and subsequent angst it has caused has upset what had been a pretty stable environment that helped open source software become the dominant force in development and IT. While […]
Buried in Code
System Configuration
Building a Real-Time App: 13 Open Source Projects You Should Be Tracking Right Now
Open source is the dominant model of software consumption in the modern era. Cutting-edge startups and entrenched incumbents alike find open source software development and community building a significant part of their overall business strategies. For many open source projects, independent steering committees ensure that projects remain stable and are not beholden to a single […]
HashiCorp Advances Open Source Consul Service Mesh
HashiCorp this week updated its Consul service mesh to make it easier to manage namespaces across multiple services. Previously, DevOps teams would have to manually ensure each namespace assigned to a group of services did not conflict with each other. The release of 1.7 of Consul enables teams to restrict access to services residing in […]
DevOps Chats: Canary Deploys Using Istio, with Autodesk
Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Canary deploys give us a window into how new code deploys perform in production on a limited basis. The technology holds great promise in helping us learn the positive or negative effects of deploys without putting the more extensive set of microservices, application functions and beyond at risk. How do you […]
Weighing the Cost of Improper DevSecOps
Simply put, data breaches are terrible news for companies. And, the costs associated with such attacks continue to escalate. A recent IBM-sponsored report found an average price of 3.92 million per breach. Not adapting security automation and vulnerability scanning into development pipelines could have a drastic effect not only on cost but workload efficiency and […]