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Kubernetes Gets a Traffic Manager

The Kubernetes ecosystem continues to expand with the adoption of a traffic manager for easing access to the orchestrator’s application services. The control plane called Contour was contributed to ...Full Article

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Rackspace Fleshes Out Hybrid Cloud Offerings

Cloud vendors are increasingly focused on supporting legacy IT infrastructure as their customers shift to hybrid cloud deployments that include emerging microservices to deliver cloud-native applications. With those requirements ...Full Article

VMware Boosts Multi-Cloud Push with Bitnami Deal

VMware continues its push into micro-services for multi-cloud deployments with its acquisition of Bitnami, a provider of server applications and development tools running virtually or hosted in the cloud. ...Full Article

Google Remains Top Open-Source Contributor

Open-source software is akin to baseball and apple pie: Everyone approves, but few actually back up their commitment with code commits to the open-source community with few or no ...Full Article

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VMware Buys Kubernetes Startup Heptio

There has been much talk with the rise of application containers about the microservices technology replacing virtual machines. VMware made a move this week that may make that a ...Full Article

Heptio Builds Bridge to Kubernetes

Heptio, the startup launched in 2016 by the creators of the Kubernetes container orchestrator, is launching an open source initiative along with partner Actapio aimed at bridging cloud native ...Full Article

Heptio Bucks Kubernetes Distribution Trend

As container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes make hybrid infrastructure more agile, gradually usurping the role of virtual machines, more tools are emerging from upstream developers of the open source ...Full Article

Heptio Looks to Reduce Container Complexity

Startup Heptio announced its latest funding round this week as it seeks to drive application container orchestration deeper into enterprise IT infrastructure by making the technology more accessible to ...Full Article

Is App Container Shakeout Underway?

The unexpected shut down of early application container developer ClusterHQ at the end of 2016 has some observers predicting that a shakeout in underway in the container sector as ...Full Article