In 2023, cloud-native technologies are becoming the norm for modern software development. And new data showed that cloud-native platforms like Kubernetes are transforming how businesses operate for the better. Kubernetes is bringing tangible benefits that extend beyond the scope of engineering teams, such as cutting costs and accelerating development timelines.

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The most widely used tools in the modern cloud-native container ecosystem are Docker and Kubernetes. These two open platforms have enabled the container revolution to thrive, thanks to the utility they provide and the openness of their communities. Though often used together, Docker and Kubernetes accomplish different goals. This difference

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BellSoft today is adding a BellSoft Alpaquita Cloud Native Platform to its portfolio that makes it possible to more efficiently run Java applications encapsulated in containers. As part of that effort, the company is making available an Alpaquita Linux distribution that is optimized for the BellSoft Alpaquita Cloud Native Platform.

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Infrastructure-as-Code: Where We Come From In recent years, since the advent of Docker and the rising popularity of containers, the concept of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) has expanded. What started as APIs to connect concrete infrastructure like (virtual) machines, networking and storage, slowly expanded to include the OS and Kubernetes as well

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CrowdStrike today launched a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) based on its Falcon Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) offering that can now detect threats aimed at containers, prevent rogue containers from running and discover binaries that have been created or modified at runtime. In addition, CrowdStrike has updated its security orchestration,

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Ambassador Labs has updated its app dev platform for building cloud-native applications to include a free tier for individual developers. The Ambassador Cloud is based on the Ambassador Developer Control Plane (DCP), a set of open source components that includes Envoy proxy software, the Argo continuous delivery platform, the emissary-ingress

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Windocks has extended a cloud-native data repository, which is based on an instance of the Docker container format, to add support for Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL and NoSQL database platforms in addition to the existing support it provides for Microsoft SQL Server database. Paul Stanton, vice president of product management for

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In this session from DevOps Connect: RSAC 2021, Matt Jarvis and Simon Maple from Snyk discuss new, insightful and surprising findings on cloud-native application security from a recent industry survey. Learn about the changes in the threat landscape, the most common types of incidents, new ‘shift left’ trends and more.

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The Tekton project is synonymous with cloud-native CI/CD. Tekton, which is an integral part of the CD Foundation, is a capable and agile tool that provides Kubernetes-native components for dev tooling. Tekton allows developers to automate cloud-native deployment pipelines for all languages and frameworks. It can also integrate with other

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A report published by ABI Research finds that if service providers hope to gain any operational efficiency as they roll out 5G wireless services, they will need to embrace cloud-native technologies such as containers at both the network edge and in the core of the network services they provide. Don

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