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Stacklet Extending Cloud Custodian to Advance Cloud Governance The lead commercial sponsor behind the open-source Cloud Custodian project is moving forward in 2021 with new funding to provide a complete view of cloud governance. Managing cloud resources can be a challenging task for organizations of any size, which has led to a rise in cloud governance tools. Among the most widely used is Cloud Custodian, an open-source project backed by commercial vendor On Jan. 13, Stacklet announced ...

Joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as general manager has been an amazing journey. When I started as GM last year, my goal was to understand the needs of the community by listening and then build from there. However, as some of you may have heard, CNCF is a foundation of doers — which means I’ve done a lot of listening and a lot of doing in my time here. To kickstart, I engaged in hundreds (maybe thousands) of conversations with end users, project contributors, board memb...

Stacklet raises $18M for its cloud governance platform Stacklet, a startup that is commercializing the Cloud Custodian open-source cloud governance project, today announced that it has raised an $18 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Addition, with participation from Foundation Capital and new individual investor Liam Randall, who is joining the company as VP of business development. Addition and Foundation Capital also invested in Stacklet’s seed round, which the company...

RedPeppy | Learn Cloud Computing Courses Online Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) �� COVID-19 introduced unique IT security challenges in several organizations. Some of the reasons are remote work, layoffs, shortage for high bandwidth and lack of automation. I’m afraid that the industry will see a new legacy systems era for few years from now just like the one we saw after the financial collapse in 2008. It may exist in the Cloud this time. DevSecOps will become a key focus a...

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With open source, your users become your partners and co-developers John E Dunn Thu 7 Jan 2021 // 07:00 UTC Share Copy Sponsored Amidst the unending cybersecurity woe of the last two decades, a significant but easy-to-miss bright spot has been the steady rise of open source security tools. Looking back, what’s interesting is how early a lot of these tools were, from Marty Roesch’s Snort intrusion prevention in the late 1990s, to Gordon Lyon’s Nmap network mapper ar...

Early next year, Red Hat OpenShift users will be able to deploy Windows containers alongside Linux containers. Starting in early 2021, Windows containers will be supported on Red Hat OpenShift. This will make things easier for companies using Linux and Windows in a multi-cloud infrastructure, as it means that Windows servers wont be forced into their own separate silos that require separate management. Windows containers will be able to be fired up on Windows servers and managed by the sa...

Key Takeaways Although we can find case studies about microservices migrations, there are still a lot of companies in the industry that haven’t touched the microservices strategy yet. The current microservices approaches are more complex than they used to be. We build more complex systems, with a more complex architecture, so we have a more complex landscape and a deeper learning curve as consequence. Monitoring and tracing microservices are some of the biggest challenges, besides its complex...

A Cloud-Native World Pushed Service Meshes Forward in 2020 Service meshes debuted in 2017, but it really broke big in 2020 due to the increased complexity of the cloud-native world. In 2020, one of the most talked and written about emerging technologies was the service mesh. Interest in the technology is on the rise, because it promises to ease workloads for DevOps teams working with large hybrid cloud infrastructures. These infrastructures are becoming increasingly more complex as the "c...

All about Kubernetes and why you need more Kubernetes is a platform for managing containerized workloads. Over recent years, it has pushed out alternative platforms and become a defacto standard. All major cloud vendors now offer managed Kubernetes services, and there are no emerging competitors poised to unseat it. This article gives an overview of the rationale behind the emergence of Kubernetes and related technologies, and their place in an overall automation strategy. Containers ...