Diagrid, a Seattle startup that offers a fully managed Dapr on Kubernetes service, announced a $20 million Series A round led by Norwest Venture Partners, with participation from Amplify Partners… Read More
At a time when open-source enterprise software is at a crossroads, wracked by debates over licensing and monetization, Kubernetes stands as an unqualified success. First released by three senior engineers… Read More
Companies interested in using Kubernetes to help manage their containerized applications have a new option from Microsoft and Red Hat that should ease them into the notoriously complex world of… Read More
Microsoft continues to look for ways to help companies that are investing in application containers take advantage of the principles of serverless computing, introducing a new open-source project Monday at… Read More
Kubernetes is as much of a north star as anything for Google’s cloud computing efforts, and it thinks software developers need more help getting their applications deployed on the popular… Read More
Invoking the mythical tech promise of “write once, run anywhere,” Google Cloud announced a new product Tuesday that customers running its managed container services can use to manage multiple cloud… Read More
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… Read More
It’s there and back again for Seattle tech veteran David Aronchick, who is returning to Microsoft after more than a decade. Aronchick is taking on the intriguing title of head of… Read More
If you’re a company that wants to run workloads across multiple cloud providers but need some help making it happen, you might want to check out Crossplane. Crossplane is the… Read More
If the multicloud movement has staying power, Kubernetes is the technology that will make it happen. NetApp added a Kubernetes service to its hybrid cloud product strategy Tuesday by acquiring… Read More
Seattle cloud startup Pulumi plans to release a software-development kit Wednesday that advances the company’s mission to make the Kubernetes container-orchestration manager easier to use for multicloud app deployments. The… Read More
While software continues to eat the world, the philosophies and tactics used to build that software are constantly changing. Getting from idea to working software has never been easy, and… Read More
While Google’s cloud business enjoyed some natural advantages as containerized applications became popular over the last few years, things are quite different when it comes to serverless computing. The company… Read More
As Google has committed itself to becoming an enterprise technology vendor, it has followed a path it knows very well in pitching big open-source projects as the solution to the… Read More
An awful lot of enterprise tech companies of a certain age have floundered trying to reinvent themselves for the cloud era, but VMware continues to find ways to give its… Read More
Amazon Web Services was the last of the major cloud vendors to go all-in with the Kubernetes container-orchestration project that became a de facto standard last year, but after announcing… Read More
Another project has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, after members voted to include Helm at the incubation stage within the organization’s roster of open-source projects. Helm was originally developed… Read More
One day after Microsoft announced that its managed Kubernetes service is ready for the general public, Red Hat announced that its OpenShift managed Kubernetes service will soon be available on… Read More
The Kubernetes train stops in Europe this week, as over 4,000 attendees attend keynote sessions and technical talks that continue through Friday on containers, container-orchestration, microservices, and even serverless computing… Read More
As more software factories add Kubernetes to their container strategies, a lot of people are getting excited about the container orchestrator’s promise as a common platform across clouds and data… Read More
When is a container serverless? That question might sound like troll bait for infrastructure geeks, but Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances, now generally available, is a blend of two prominent trends… Read More
Heptio added a new load balancer to its stable of open-source projects Monday, targeting Kubernetes users who are managing multiple clusters of the container-orchestration tool alongside older infrastructure. Gimbal, developed… Read More
Docker lost the Container Orchestration War of 2017, as brief and relatively amicable as it was. Now the company is focusing all of its attention on Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0,… Read More
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation was created when Google agreed to release Kubernetes as an open-source project back in 2015, and the CNCF plans to announce this week that Kubernetes… Read More
Writing software is hard enough, but deploying that software to the cloud is much, much harder. Microsoft’s Brendan Burns, who literally wrote the book on how to manage distributed cloud… Read More
AUSTIN – Backers of the open-source Kubernetes container-orchestration project could be forgiven for taking a victory lap this week at Kubecon 2017, given the growth in adoption and capitulation of… Read More
AUSTIN – Pinterest was one of the first clear cloud-computing success stories: now valued at over $12 billion, the massive site launched on Amazon Web Services and has never looked… Read More
LAS VEGAS — As the year of Kubernetes wraps up, Amazon Web Services joined its cloud rivals by rolling out a new service that manages the popular container-orchestration software for… Read More
LAS VEGAS — With the cloud computing industry gathered in Las Vegas for Amazon Web Services’ big re:Invent conference, Google decided to get out ahead of the big news expected… Read More
For one week, at least, Amazon’s HQ2 is in Las Vegas. Amazon Web Services will get the last word on cloud computing in 2017 and set the agenda for the… Read More