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Author: Veronica Haggar

  • KSPM and Compliance simplified with Runecast

    London, UK, MAY 16, 2022 – Runecast Solutions Ltd., a Gartner Cool Vendor and leading provider of simplified security and operational transparency for Kubernetes workloads, is pleased to announce that its patented enterprise platform Runecast (formerly Runecast Analyzer) will expand its current Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM) capabilities with advanced image scanning and CI/CD integration. This will enable Runecast customers to jump-start Q3 2022 with proactive Kubernetes vulnerability management, from code to deployment.

    Runecast is an IT Security and Operations platform designed to enable CISOs, CIOs, and their Security and Operations teams with proactive Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM) and show them the most vulnerable areas to focus on first. 

    “Kubernetes is no longer the new kid on the block, it’s a well  established container orchestration platform, running mission critical workloads and needs to be treated seriously when it comes to security and compliance,” said Runecast Head of Product Markus Strauss. “Runecast is here to simplify K8s security and speed up operations.”

    According to the “State of Kubernetes 2022” report by VMware, 97% of organizations have concerns about K8s security.

    Runecast a ‘High Performer’ (via G2 reviews)

    In April 2022, Runecast announced its rank as a ‘High Performer’ in the Spring 2022 G2 Grid® Reports for the categories Security Risk Analysis, Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP), Vulnerability Scanner, Cloud Compliance and Cloud Security.

    Running securely on-premises, Runecast automates security compliance checks for Kubernetes with insights into what is happening both on-premises and in the cloud. No sensitive company, employee, or customer data needs to leave the organization. Runecast aims to make vulnerability management easy with CVEs listed in the dashboard alongside vulnerabilities which are known to have been exploited, according to CISA’s KEV catalog.

    Expanded Runecast Kubernetes coverage a ‘shift left’

    Upon deploying Runecast (in a matter of minutes), IT teams see a list of critical issues and steps to remediate according to Kubernetes Best Practices. Hybrid environments can also see issues for AWS, Azure, VMware, Windows and Linux – all from the same dashboard.

    New Kubernetes intelligence and capabilities coming to Runecast at the end of Q2 include:

    Image Scanning

    Our Kubernetes vulnerability management will extend from the cluster down to the nodes by providing vulnerability scanning for deployed Kubernetes container images. This will provide customers the ability to automate vulnerability management for Kubernetes, ensuring that Kubernetes deployments meet best practices, security and compliance requirements.

    CI/CD Integration

    The new version of Runecast will bring container-scanning capabilities for Dev and DevOps teams by integrating directly with their CI/CD pipeline, to ensure that ‘rapid develop and deploy’ approaches will be secure. CI/CD integration will allow customers to have limiting criteria at which point a pull request etc. will be automatically rejected. Runecast CI/CD integration will on-demand scan the Template or Manifest for the container to be deployed as part of the pull request and if a predetermined amount of Vulnerabilities are present on that requested container image, it will automatically deny the pull request and prevent this container from being deployed.

    Extended (Agent-Based) Collection

    The Runecast platform will allow teams much greater insight into the actual nodes running on the Kubernetes cluster and will greatly increase the amount of vulnerabilities that Runecast is able to proactively discover.

    How Runecast works for K8s clusters

    Runecast offers configuration drift management, security compliance auditing and proactive issues management for your Kubernetes deployments. It automates Kubernetes configuration analysis by auditing common cluster operational and security best practices for KSPM, including the CIS Benchmark (1.6.0) for Kubernetes security. IT teams can deploy Runecast directly to Kubernetes (using a Helm chart) and immediately get automated Kubernetes configuration analysis at the node-level, cluster-level, and workload level.

    “By its very nature, Kubernetes is a highly flexible container orchestration system and is deployed across hybrid, multi-cloud, private cloud or on-prem environments. Runecast helps customers where their K8s workloads run, irrespective of their underlying infrastructure,” said Mr. Strauss “Using Runecast, our customers have the ability to scan their infrastructure against 10+ security standards straight out of the box.”

    To achieve an optimized level of compliance maturity, the unified visibility and reporting in Runecast brings security and stability to your IT environment, increases the uptime of your infrastructure and reduces overall costs.

    About Runecast

    Runecast Solutions Ltd. is a leading global provider of a patented solution for IT Security and Operations teams. Forward-focused enterprises like Avast, DocuSign, and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) rely on Runecast for proactive risk mitigation, security compliance, operational efficiency and mission-critical stability. Headquartered in London, U.K., Runecast is a Gartner Cool Vendor and has won Computing awards for Cloud Security Product of the Year and Best Place to Work in Digital. To add proactive to your IT strategy, visit www.runecast.com.

    Contact Information

    Runecast Solutions Ltd.
    2164 R – Kemp House, 152 City Road
    London EC1V 2NX, UK
    Contact us here

    Zuzana Belehradova
    Community & Campaign Manager
    team@runecast.com

  • Sosivio’s Predictive Troubleshooting for Kubernetes Gives Answers, Not Data

    Valencia, Spain,  May 16, 2022 — Sosivio, a predictive troubleshooting platform built specifically for Kubernetes, is sponsoring this year’s KubeCon Europe both in-person and virtually from May 16th-20th in Valencia, Spain.

    We can all agree Kubernetes is the de facto container orchestrator, but Kubernetes environments are difficult to manage at scale. It’s not a question of “will things break?” rather what actually went wrong and how long to recover? Take the guesswork out of troubleshooting, Sosivio has you covered. Imagine knowing an issue was occuring ahead of time before your application or website crashes and thousands of users are dropped mid-session. Or being able to know instantly why there is latency or delayed response times. What is the cumulative business impact of preventing these issues before they materialize into a catastrophe?

    Leveraging the use of lean-AI/ML, Sosivio is able to predict and prevent critical failures in Kubernetes environments and applications replacing the need to spend hours and hours troubleshooting. With Sosivio, you GET ANSWERS, NOT DATA! Sosivio has features for everyone in the software development and operations process including developers, DevOps, IT, DevSecOps, and even management.

    In addition to the predictive maintenance tools and instant root cause remediation, Sosivio has recently added features such as Application Resource Profiling and Application Insights to provide insights which have direct business impact on your organization. Sosivio makes sure you know when applications are over-allocated or under-allocated resources which leads to unnecessary cloud-spend and performance issues on your clusters.

    Sosivio is now live on major cloud marketplaces including RedHat, AWS, SUSE, and VMware. Plus, Sosivio’s Community Version is free forever. This gives you access to unprecedented data aggregation and failure warnings. All new users of the platform get a free 4-week trial of Sosivio Premium to tap into advanced insights and failure prediction. Once your trial is up, we don’t leave you behind as you will automatically convert to the Sosivio Community version which will warn you about potential failures. Sosivio has a pay-as-you-go option so that you can get access to the advanced insights at any point and only pay for the value that it brings you.

    Stay energized! Stop by our Coffee Bar in Pavilion 2! Afterwards, head to Booth #SU30 to learn about Data Swirling and how we fuel our ML prediction engines.

    GET ANSWERS. NOT DATA.

  • OCI at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe

    I’m excited that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is sponsoring and participating in this year’s Kubecon + CloudNativeCon EU in Valencia, Spain. There, the OCI team can answer any questions that you have about modernizing your applications and demo how customers can use cloud services to build and manage modern applications in the most cost-performant way.

    Oracle is a platinum member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) with commitment to the open source community and simplifying cloud native application development. OCI Cloud Native services are built on CNCF open source standards, including 100% upstream compatible Kubernetes, CloudEvents, and more.

    Oracle continues to innovate and deliver other features to make it easier for customers to build and operate mission-critical modern apps at scale. We have the following recent launches:

    OCI Service Mesh

    OCI Service Mesh is a free, managed service that provides security, observability, and network traffic management for your microservices without requiring any changes to the applications. This fully managed service makes implementing these capabilities simple for any organization, regardless of size. OCI Service Mesh provides a highly resilient central management layer and a proxy component that enables communication between the microservices and the management layer.

    The proxy is based on Envoy, the widely used open source proxy component. When you add a mesh to your application, it automatically injects the proxy in front of each microservice to manage the traffic. Customers using OCI Service Mesh benefit from improved developer productivity, operational efficiency, end-to-end visibility, secure workloads, and dynamic connection of their microservices.

    Kubernetes Cluster API provider for OCI

    Cluster API is a Kubernetes subproject focused on providing declarative APIs and tooling to simplify provisioning, upgrading, and operating multiple Kubernetes clusters. OCI support for Cluster API enables cluster administrators to get more control of configuration and software installed in clusters and standardize the approach to managing clusters across multiple clouds and on-premises. Cluster API is integrated with OCI services, offering broad Compute shape support and integration with networking and security services. It also offers an integration point for third-party Kubernetes management tools.

    Enhanced security features for Kubernetes

    OCI offers a managed Kubernetes service, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE). OKE is built with security, flexibility, and high performance in mind. OKE makes it easier to achieve end-to-end security for your infrastructure and applications, while remaining compliant with the security technical implementation guides (STIGs) and regulatory compliance.

    Customers can use OKE with fully private clusters restricting the Kubernetes API endpoint to an on- premises network or a bastion host. They can also harden network access using network security rules and control access to the clusters using role-based access control (RBAC) integrated with OCI Identity and Access Management (IAM) service.

    Workloads on OKE benefit from continuous security assessment and problem remediation, container image vulnerability scanning, image signing and verification to ensure the integrity of application images, and audit logs to detect anomalous activity. OKE workloads and attached storage volumes are always encrypted by default. OKE added support to use customer-managed keys for encrypting boot volumes and persistent volumes at rest and in transit.

    Customize Kubernetes worker node startup

    OKE provides greater control over configuring worker node hosts that run Kubernetes workloads by customizing the cloud-init scripts. This control enables customers to configure security-enhanced Linux policies for security and compliance, configure corporate proxies, install mandated antivirus software and security tools, or configure custom yum proxies. Customers can also pass kubelet-extra-args to configure taints to control pod scheduling, assign IP addresses, or run the OKE Node Doctor to confirm that worker nodes are behaving as expected.

    Provisioned concurrency for Functions

    OCI customers can create, run, and scale applications without managing any infrastructure using Oracle Functions. Functions offers a secure execution environment for your applications, with code isolation, secure authentication, fine-grained access control, and image scanning and signature verification. Customers invoke Functions directly, expose them as APIs using API Gateway, or trigger them based on CloudEvents, Notifications, Logging, or Streaming services.

    Customers building applications that require immediate responses can now avoid the initial startup time for Functions by configuring Provisioned Concurrency. This feature enables you to get consistent subsecond latencies by warming-up functions and provisioning infrastructure ahead of time.

    Get started

    To learn more about these features or how you can modernize your applications with OCI, visit the Oracle booth in person at Solution Showcase Level 2 booth #P2 or virtually.

    You can also create your Always Free account on OCI to try these services. Also, check out our Reference Architecture Center for some modern application use cases and how to deploy them on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

    Devika Nair
    Director of Product
    Devika Nair is the Director of Product for Cloud Native Technologies (Containers, Serverless and API) at OCI, focusing on helping customers modernize their applications.

  • Datadog Announces OpenTelemetry Protocol Support

    Datadog expands its existing support for OpenTelemetry by enabling native OpenTelemetry Protocol ingestion in the Datadog Agent

    NEW YORK, NY, May 16, 2022 – Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDOG), the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, announced today the general availability of OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) support in the Datadog agent. This new capability brings the full monitoring capabilities of the Datadog platform to OpenTelemetry-instrumented applications, without the need to install a separate OpenTelemetry collector.

    OpenTelemetry is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) initiative that provides open, vendor-neutral standards and tools for instrumenting services and applications. Many organizations use OpenTelemetry’s collection of APIs, SDKs, and tools to collect and export observability data from their environment to their preferred backend system.

    The Datadog Agent now provides native support for OTLP, making it easy to receive metrics and traces from applications instrumented with OpenTelemetry libraries. In addition, because the Datadog Agent can also collect other telemetry – such as application profiles, network data and infrastructure metrics from 500+ integrations – Datadog customers can now access richer context around their OTLP traces and gain a deeper understanding of their systems and applications. Datadog customers can also connect OpenTelemetry traces with logs to get a more complete picture of their stack.

    “OpenTelemetry provides application developers, system reliability engineers, and middleware providers with a consistent API and wire protocol for instrumenting applications and collecting metrics and traces in a vendor agnostic manner,” said Ilan Rabinovitch, Senior Vice President of Product and Community at Datadog. “With this release we’re adding another option that enables customers to use OpenTelemetry with Datadog without having to go through the time consuming exercise of changing the instrumentation of their applications.”

    For more information about Datadog’s support for OpenTelemetry, please visit: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/ingest-opentelemetry-traces-metrics-with-datadog-agent.

    To learn more about Datadog’s Application Performance Monitoring capabilities, please visit Modern Application Performance Monitoring (APM).

    About Datadog

    Datadog is the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers’ entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.

    Forward-Looking Statements

    This press release may include certain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended including statements on the

    benefits of new products and features. These forward-looking statements reflect our current views about our plans, intentions, expectations, strategies and prospects, which are based on the information currently available to us and on assumptions we have made. Actual results may differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements and are subject to a variety of assumptions, uncertainties, risks and factors that are beyond our control, including those risks detailed under the caption “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 6, 2022, as well as future filings and reports by us. Except as required by law, we undertake no duty or obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information, future events, changes in expectations or otherwise.

    Contact
    Dan Haggerty
    press@datadoghq.com

  • Datadog Enhances Monitoring and Security for Kubernetes

    The new offerings help organizations easily manage the increasing complexity of Kubernetes environments

    NEW YORK, NY, May 16, 2022 — Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDOG), the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, today announced a number of enhancements to its platform that simplify the monitoring and security of Kubernetes environments.

    While orchestrated container environments are growing in overall adoption, they are also becoming increasingly time consuming and difficult to manage. To address this complexity and help companies more effectively monitor and secure their Kubernetes environments, Datadog has launched a number of new platform enhancements specifically for Kubernetes users:

    • Container Monitoring: Datadog Operator for Kubernetes, Amazon EKS Blueprints Add-On, Helm integration, and OpenTelemetry Span Ingestion support greatly simplify setting up monitoring in Kubernetes environments. With these enhancements, Kubernetes users can easily deploy and update the Datadog Agent without downtime, get deeper visibility into the health and performance of their dynamic infrastructure, and monitor their entire set of resources using Datadog monitors, dashboards and SLOs.
    • Application Performance Monitoring: APM Service Pages now include detailed pod information. This allows customers to quickly identify issues impacting their containerized applications.
    • Security: Using Cloud Security Posture Management and Cloud Workload Security, Datadog customers can now continuously monitor their Kubernetes clusters for critical misconfigurations, report on CIS benchmarks and detect attacks against Kubernetes infrastructure in real time.

    “Our 2020 research showed that Kubernetes was the dominant container orchestration platform among our customers. That trend has continued through 2021 and 2022 and majority of our customers are choosing to manage their containerized applications through Kubernetes,” said Yrieix Garnier, VP of Product at Datadog. “These latest Kubernetes solutions enable Datadog to provide unparalleled performance and security to these customers as they continue to scale and grow their environments.”

    About Datadog
    Datadog is the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers’ entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.

    Forward-Looking Statements

    This press release may include certain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended including statements on the benefits of new products and features. These forward-looking statements reflect our current views about our plans, intentions, expectations, strategies and prospects, which are based on the information currently available to us and on assumptions we have made. Actual results may differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements and are subject to a variety of assumptions, uncertainties, risks and factors that are beyond our control, including those risks detailed under the caption “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 25, 2022, as well as future filings and reports by us. Except as required by law, we undertake no duty or obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information, future events, changes in expectations or otherwise.page2image47096832

    Contact
    Dan Haggerty
    press@datadoghq.com

  • Codenotary Adds Vulnerability Scanning to Popular Community Platform for Open Source Supply Chain Security

    Community Attestation Service addresses need for integrated, continuous security for developers

    KubeCon Europe, VALENCIA, Spain, May 16, 2022 — Codenotary, leaders in software supply chain security, today announced the addition of the first-ever free background vulnerability scanning service combined with a free and open source Community Attestation Service (CAS) code signing and attestation service to further secure open source supply chains.

    Gartner predicts that by 2025, 45% of organizations worldwide will have experienced attacks on their software supply chains, a three-fold increase from 2021. The addition of a free vulnerability service to CAS allows cloud native and open source projects to better secure their projects. This additional service scans assets (based on the hashes uploaded) for any known security vulnerability and provides alerts if problematic packages are found in the stack. CAS can also be used to “untrust” any problematic artifacts.

    “This is especially unique – a totally free code integrity service that integrates automated, continuous and self-updating vulnerability scanning, delivering alerts when it finds issues,” said Dennis Zimmer, co-founder and chief technology officer, Codenotary. “Users of open source software – and that is pretty much everyone – have a free and easy way to ensure the security of their software supply chain which addresses a big and growing problem”

    Codenotary is the primary maintainer of immudb, the first and only open source enterprise-class immutable database with data permanence at scale for demanding applications — up to billions of transactions per day. Codenotary uses immudb to underpin its notarization and verification product. There have been more than 12 million downloads of immudb.

    Anyone can start using CAS today to ensure their open source software is secured for themselves and their users. Codenotary is at booth S92 at KubeCon Europe from May 16-20.

    Codenotary provides tools for cataloging and trusting components of the software development lifecycle which help attest to the origin and safety of the code. The company further enhances this core functionality by providing an additional tamper-proof layer which processes and stores millions of transactions per second, on-premises or as a cloud service, and with cryptographic verification. It gives developers a way to attach a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for development artifacts that include source code, builds, repositories, and more, plus Docker and Kubernetes container images for their software.

    About Codenotary

    With over 100 customers that includes top three banks in the U.S. and Europe, Codenotary brings easy to use trust and integrity into the software lifecycle by providing end-to-end cryptographically verifiable tracking and provenance for all artifacts, actions, and dependencies. Codenotary can be set up in minutes and can be fully integrated with modern CI/CD platforms. It is the only immutable and client-verifiable solution available that is capable of processing millions of transactions a second. With the Codenotary tamper-proof bill of materials, users can instantly identify untrusted components in their software builds. For more information, go to https://www.codenotary.com.

    Contact
    Joe Eckert for Codenotary Eckert Communications jeckert@eckertcomms.com

  • Bunnyshell Launches Native Terraform Integration, Enabling True GitOps Governance

    The integration eliminates environment drift, with auto-update across infrastructure, microservices and databases

    San Francisco, CA, May 16, 2022 — Bunnyshell, the leading Environment-as-a-Service (EaaS) platform, today announced native integration with the infrastructure-as-code tool Terraform. The new integration provides a complete end-to-end solution for development teams to replicate their production environments at all stages of the software development lifecycle.

    Release management for modern, cloud-native distributed enterprise software can pose challenges, as local development environments are so radically different from the complex production environments where the code is ultimately deployed. These differences can affect the way the code behaves, leading to bugs in production, rollbacks and long testing cycles. Even when a company is able to build production-like development and testing environments, changes to the real system lead to continual drift between the replicas and the real thing.

    Bunnyshell’s EaaS platform creates always-updated ephemeral environments for development and testing. With Terraform integration, Bunnyshell’s auto-update and GitOps governance capabilities extend beyond microservices into infrastructure. Changes committed to either the code or the infrastructure will trigger an update of all environments, ensuring that a whole organization is always working on the latest version. The platform can pull infrastructure configurations and code from repositories in Github, GitLab, Bitbucket and deploy them on Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure and DigitalOcean.

    Roxana Ciobanu, co-founder & CTO of Bunnyshell said “We are on a mission to make developers’ lives easier and Terraform is another milestone in that journey. In the GitOps age, the distinction between infrastructure and code is dissolving, and both change at unprecedented speed. We’re proud to be able to help developers keep up with their ever-changing production environments so they can create and deploy excellent code at speed and with confidence.”

    ABOUT BUNNYSHELL

    Bunnyshell is a multi-cloud Environments-as-a-Service platform that creates, manages and maintains production replicas, no matter how complex the architecture and what services are used. It automatically spins up new environments with every pull request or as part of the software release cycle, for development, testing, demo or deployment purposes. Bunnyshell brings predictability into sprints, enables frequency releases and helps developers ship more code. https://www.bunnyshell.com

  • Loft Labs Simplifies Virtual Kubernetes Cluster Management with New Open Source Project

    Deploy virtual Kubernetes clusters the same as clusters in the cloud, edge or on-premises

    San Francisco, CA May 16, 2022 — Loft Labs, a venture-backed startup working on developer tooling and multi-tenancy solutions for Kubernetes, today announced the release of a Cluster API provider for the popular open-source vcluster technology. Now, deploying virtual clusters can be done exactly the same as deploying physical Kubernetes clusters on a cloud platform or on-premises data center.

    In addition to Loft Labs, the Cluster API project has received technical contributions from a wide range of companies including VMware, Microsoft, Weaveworks, Google, Mattermost, IBM, RedHat, D2iQ, Equinix, Apple, Talos Systems, Spectro Cloud, Daimler TSS, Ericsson, Giant Swarm, AppsCode, Intel, Twilio, New Relic, Amazon, and many more.

    “Cluster API makes cluster lifecycle management boring by simplifying repetitive tasks while maintaining consistency and repeatability,” said Lukas Gentele, co-founder and CEO of Loft Labs. “It helps manage Kubernetes infrastructure holistically with automation and standardization.”

    Kris Nóva, senior principal engineer, and J. Brandt Buckley, principal engineer, from Twilio commented on the CNCF blog about their experience using Cluster API. “At Twilio, we run upwards of 100 production Kubernetes clusters on bare metal servers distributed across various geographic data centers. We have found value in Cluster APIs overall topology, specifically with the paradigm of having a management cluster. We take advantage of management clusters as our dedicated infrastructure on which the team can build, manage, and secure the suite of applications that manage our company’s growing fleet of Kubernetes clusters.”

    The vcluster open source software is growing quickly with more than 3 million downloads and over 1,500 stars on GitHub in less than a year after its initial release. First launched in April 2021, vcluster is used to create lightweight Kubernetes clusters that run inside the namespaces of underlying Kubernetes clusters. Using virtual clusters solves the majority of multi-tenancy issues of Kubernetes because they offer:

    • Better isolation than simple namespace-based multi-tenancy;
    • Reduced cloud computing cost because virtual clusters are much more lightweight and resource-efficient than spinning up separate single-tenant clusters;
    • Logical separation and encapsulation of application workloads from the underlying cluster’s shared infrastructure workloads (such as shared ingress controller or network plug-ins).

    At the same time, virtual cluster users can expect that their virtual cluster behaves just like any regular Kubernetes cluster because vcluster is a certified Kubernetes distribution, which means that it passes all conformance tests that CNCF requires. Virtual clusters are often used as development environments when engineers are building, testing and debugging cloud-native software, but they are also frequently used as ephemeral environments for executing continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. page1image46808640

    To learn more, go to the Kubernetes GitHub project hosting the Cluster API Provider for vcluster. Loft Labs is at booth SU15 at KubeCon Europe from May 16-20.

    About Loft Labs

    Loft Labs was founded in 2019 to create open-source developer tooling and virtual cluster technology for Kubernetes, with the goal to increase developer productivity and to help engineers gain secure but unimpeded access to cloud infrastructure.

    Media Contact
    Joseph Eckert for Loft Labs
    pr@loft.sh

  • KubeCon: SysEleven Unveils MetaKube Operator

    – Customer demand for secure Cloud operations for Digital Sovereignty increases significantly
    – Revenue doubled four years in a row, Third Region is live
    – Increased focus on Kubernetes as a growth driver

    Berlin/Valencia, May 16 2022 — Thanks to revenue growth that has doubled four years in a row, Cloud Service Provider SysEleven has established itself as one of the most critical Kubernetes providers in Germany. With “MetaKube Operator” introduced today at KubeCon, SysEleven is taking its portfolio to a new level with its fully Managed Kubernetes offering. SysEleven comes to the fore when organizations want to use DSGVO-compatible cloud infrastructures without vendor lock-in: “Companies and public institutions are actively looking for alternatives to AWS and Google Cloud and are increasingly asking for open source-based solutions,” says SysEleven CEO Marc Korthaus.

    Review and outlook: Rapid Kubernetes growth 

    As an up-and-coming company, SysEleven has established itself as a medium-sized solution provider in the competitive Cloud market and sees itself prepared for the future to focus on Kubernetes solutions. “All signs point to accelerated growth” is how founder and CEO Marc Korthaus describes the situation: “We have commissioned a third data center location in Frankfurt, appointed Andreas Hermann as our third managing director, and significantly increased our staff.” 

    Lighthouse for data-aware organizations

    Security-sensitive companies and public institutions need certainty in data protection and sovereignty to modernize their IT infrastructure. “There is still no clarity about what comes after the Cloud Act,” notes SysEleven CEO Korthaus. “Therefore, new policies are needed that define which data can be used in which infrastructures. As a DSGVO-compliant provider, our customers are freed from this legal uncertainty.”

    SysEleven at KubeCon

    SysEleven will provide detailed information about MetaKube Operator and its other offerings at booth S62 at KubeCon, in Valencia (Spain) from May 16 to 20. 

    About MetaKube Operator

    A year ago at KubeCon, SysEleven introduced MetaKube Accelerator, a semi-automated Kubernetes solution for customers who want to rely on a working setup with tested components and basic applications. They build their Cloud Native software projects on top of this. With MetaKube Operator, SysEleven takes over the complete operation. 

    “With MetaKube Operator, we significantly simplify the setup and management of cloud-native applications on Kubernetes,” says Marc Korthaus, founder and CEO of SysEleven. “This is our response to the request of our customers who want to put the operation of a DSGVO-compliant and scalable Kubernetes platform in experienced hands.”

    To participate in the closed beta of MetaKube Operator, interested parties should contact SysEleven directly here: https://www.syseleven.de/en/products-services/metakube-operator/    

    About SysEleven MetaKube

    The technical foundation of the framework is MetaKube Core, a DSGVO-compliant managed Kubernetes offering for which customers do not need to provide their infrastructure to operate. MetaKube Accelerator builds on this and offers an integrated environment where application developers can assemble complete setups from curated software modules in the final version.

    MetaKube Operator is particularly suitable for companies that offer Cloud Native applications to their customers. Agencies that need to realize many high-performance projects for their clients’ online business quickly can also benefit from MetaKube Accelerator. You can find more details about the MetaKube framework from SysEleven here: https://www.syseleven.de/en/products-services/kubernetes/ 

    About SysEleven

    SysEleven is a leading Cloud and Kubernetes service provider specializing in the operation of distributed and mission-critical systems and the rapid scaling of workloads. The company supports organizations that want to complete their transformation to cloud-native and value speed, flexibility, and autonomy. The service portfolio consists of comprehensive services – starting with concept consulting, the set-up of test environments, training, and fully managed operation. At the heart of the vertical technology stack is “MetaKube,” a managed Kubernetes offering that enables organizations to develop and operate web-based software products. SysEleven attaches great importance to data protection and digital sovereignty. Therefore, all solutions are hosted exclusively in ISO27001-certified German data centers, enabling customers and partners to comply with the German Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO). The range of services includes Managed Cloud Services, OpenStack Public Cloud, Managed Kubernetes, and various network services.

    The Berlin-based SysEleven GmbH was founded in 2007 by Marc Korthaus, who is still managing director together with Jens Ihlenfeld, and employs over 100 people. Its clients include Schiesser, Intersport, DFS Aviation Services, Babymarkt, FTAPI, Staffbase, Senatsverwaltung Berlin, brand eins and Golem.de. You can find more information at https://www.syseleven.de/en/.

    Contact person
    Agentur Frische Fische
    Stefen Niemeyer
    +49 171 / 499 05 60
    nie@frische-fische.com

    SysEleven
    Christin Rehbein
    +49 30 233 2012 0
    presse@syseleven.de
                                                                              

  • D2iQ Partners with GitLab Inc. to Accelerate the Deployment of Smart Cloud Native Applications

    D2iQ and GitLab combine the power of Kubernetes and DevOps to deliver more efficient operations and faster time-to-market for new applications

    San Francisco, CA May 16, 2022 — D2iQ, the leading enterprise Kubernetes provider for smart cloud-native applications, today announced a partnership with GitLab Inc., The One DevOps Platform for software innovation, to automate and simplify the deployment of containerized workloads, accelerating software delivery cycle times. 

    Through this partnership, users can now run the GitLab Kubernetes Operator on the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP), providing  consistent upgrades, deployment and security policies for infrastructures and applications. Enterprise organizations can also safely deploy a project to DKP from a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline with a cluster attached to GitLab, providing enhanced flexibility and agility.

    “The partnership between GitLab and D2iQ allows joint customers to build, test, deploy, and run modern apps at scale,” said Jaimie Kander, Sr. Manager of Alliance Partner Programs and Go To Market at GitLab. “GitLab’s single application for the DevOps lifecycle encourages continuous testing and allows increased visibility, which makes it easier to securely adopt the next generation of cloud-native technologies.”

    According to the findings in the “Kubernetes in the Enterprise Annual Report,” a lack of IT resources was the most prevalent challenge in growing Kubernetes adoption across the enterprise. Full integration of GitOps workflows along with declarative APIs enables easier management of Kubernetes clusters in production environments. DKP reduces the operational loads on DevOps teams so they can focus on innovation, not just supporting infrastructure. In addition, DKP’s user-friendly control plane provides a variety of development approaches using GitLab, including ongoing delivery and deployment with FluxCD, which is designed for Kubernetes and supports multi-cluster and multi-tenant use cases. 

    “Organizations of all sizes are under more pressure than ever to drive innovation, performance, and speed,” said Tobi Knaup, CEO of D2iQ. “Combining the leading Kubernetes and DevOps platforms enables organizations to achieve a new level of business performance. D2iQ and GitLab are delivering a best-in-class solution and an unmatched user experience to enable our customers to achieve success in Day 2 operations.” 

    D2iQ Kubernetes Platform can be experienced live at D2iQ’s booth at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU on May 16-20, 2022. For more information, visit: www.D2IQ.com 

    About D2iQ

    D2iQ accelerates Day 2 success for smart cloud-native applications on enterprise Kubernetes. The D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP) includes everything needed to adopt Kubernetes easily and expand Kubernetes use to multiple clusters across any infrastructure, whether on-premise, in the cloud, in air-gapped environments, or at the edge, and to enable smart cloud-native applications. 

    D2iQ eliminates roadblocks to success, such as lack of skills, with our Kubernetes and cloud-native expertise, alleviates operational complexity with a simpler and easy-to-use platform, and addresses security concerns with military-grade security. 

    D2iQ is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in London and Hamburg. D2iQ investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Khosla Ventures, Koch Disruptive Technologies, Microsoft, and T.Rowe Price Associates, Inc. Find us at http://www.d2iq.com.