Cloud-Native Apps

Monitoring VMware Kubernetes Engine and Application Metrics with Wavefront

Cloud-Native Apps posted August 7, 2018

By Dan Illson, Bill Shetti, and Pierre Tessier For a demonstration of the solution discussed in this article, please see this video posted by Boskey Savla. Monitoring is a cornerstone of the process of characterizing, analyzing, and optimizing applications. As an increasing number of applications either move to or are built atop container technologies, Read more...

Crunching Numbers to Max Out Your VMworld Schedule? Stream into these Power Sessions from PKS Partners

Cloud-Native Apps posted August 6, 2018

VMware {code} is bringing focused presentations and workshops called “Power Sessions” to VMWorld Las Vegas. Held in the VMware {code} Shop, Power Sessions will run the gamut from presentations to demos, but they’re all short, focused bytes of DevOps knowledge. We have worked with our partners at Redis Labs, Crunchy Data, Confluent, and CloudBees to Read more...

Strategic Approaches for a Successful Digital Transformation

Cloud-Native Apps posted August 3, 2018

Guest blog by Gautham Pallapa Vice President, Systems and Platforms at West Corporation Driving a digital transformation for an organization with a lot of brownfield applications in its portfolio can be extremely hard, and the journey can be arduous and perilous. Since legacy applications usually grow organically based upon the culture, structure, domain, and clientele Read more...

Istio 1.0 Release: An Interview with the Technical Lead for Istio Networking

Cloud-Native Apps posted July 31, 2018

By Mark Schweighardt, Director, NSBU Today marks a major milestone for the Istio open source project – the release of Istio 1.0. In support of today’s release, I interviewed Shriram Rajagopalan, one of Istio’s founding engineers as well as the technical lead of the networking subsystem within the Istio project. Shriram actively contributes Read more...

Harbor Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation

James Zabala posted July 31, 2018

By James Zabala, Open Source Lead, Cloud Native Apps Today we are thrilled to announce that Harbor has become an official CNCF project, joining the ranks of other cloud-native projects like Rook, SPIFFE, Spire, Open Policy Agent, CloudEvents, and Telepresence. Harbor will enter CNCF as a sandbox project as we continue to add features and Read more...

Harbor Accepted as CNCF-Hosted Project

Cloud-Native Apps posted July 31, 2018

Today, we are excited to announce that Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has accepted Harbor as a Sandbox-level hosted project (read CNCF’s post here). This marks a major milestone for the container registry project that originated as an internal VMware project in China back in 2014 and was open sourced in 2016. With Harbor, VMware Read more...

VMworld Session Sneak Peek: The Value of Running Kubernetes on vSphere

Cloud-Native Apps posted July 30, 2018

By Frank Denneman, Sr. Staff Architect Kubernetes is one of the most exciting technologies of the year. Will it replace virtual machines? Will it displace VMware vSphere? Is it the next platform or is it just another technology making its way into the data center? By now, we know that Kubernetes optimizes cloud-native workloads when Read more...

CNCF Adds VMware vSphere to Cross-Cloud CI Dashboard

Cloud-Native Apps posted July 24, 2018

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) CI Working Group has been making steady progress on the Cross-Cloud CI project to continuously test deployments of Kubernetes and CNCF projects. Many cloud providers and projects have been added over the year, making it a comprehensive and important validation. See the latest dashboard and matrix describing the interoperability Read more...

A Dash of Security: Locking Down Kubernetes Admin Access to Thwart Cryptojacking

Steven Hoenisch posted July 20, 2018

By Wei Fu, R&D director, and Steve Hoenisch, writer, Cloud-Native Apps BU An unsecured Kubernetes Dashboard on the Internet is an open invitation for hackers to hijack your cloud compute resources to mine cryptocurrency. According to RedLock, Tesla is one of the latest victims of cryptojacking. Attackers used Tesla’s Kubernetes Dashboard, which was not Read more...

Getting Started with Elastic Stack on vSphere Integrated Containers

arslanabbasi posted July 19, 2018

By Arslan Abbasi, Technical Product Manager, Cloud-Native Apps In today’s dynamic world of application development and deployment, a good monitoring framework is a bare minimum. Elastic Stack (formerly known as the ELK Stack) is a monitoring framework that lets you reliably and securely ingest data from a variety of sources and formats so you can Read more...