Cloud Foundry Foundation updates Korifi to simplify Kubernetes developer experience

Cloud Foundry Foundation announced the latest release of Korifi, a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that takes a major step forward in reducing the complexity of Kubernetes while improving the application deployment experience. The Korifi update includes s… Continue reading Cloud Foundry Foundation updates Korifi to simplify Kubernetes developer experience

Cloud Foundry Foundation Korifi resolves Kubernetes complexities for developers

Cloud Foundry Foundation announced Korifi, the beta release of a new Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that eases much of the complexity inherent to Kubernetes, to vastly improve the application deployment experience. The Kubernetes experience has been comp… Continue reading Cloud Foundry Foundation Korifi resolves Kubernetes complexities for developers

Principles for Kubernetes security and good hygiene

Traditional methods of software security are not a good fit for Kubernetes: a renewed set of security implementations are required to make it less vulnerable. What’s different about Kubernetes security? This article walks through several key idea… Continue reading Principles for Kubernetes security and good hygiene

SUSE contributes EiriniX to the Cloud Foundry Foundation

SUSE today announced that it has contributed EiriniX, a framework for building extensions for Eirini, a technology that brings support for Kubernetes-based container orchestration to the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service project. About a year ago, SUSE also contributed the KubeCF project to the foundation, which itself allows the Cloud Foundry Application Runtime — the core of […] Continue reading SUSE contributes EiriniX to the Cloud Foundry Foundation

Puppet names former Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abbey Kearns as CTO

Puppet, the Portland-based infrastructure automation company, today announced that it has named former Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abby Kearns as its new CTO. She’s replacing Deepak Giridharagopal, who became CTO in 2016. Kearns stepped down from her role at the Cloud Foundry Foundation earlier this month after holding that position since 2016. At the […] Continue reading Puppet names former Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abbey Kearns as CTO

Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abby Kearns steps down to pursue a new executive role elsewhere

The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF), the home of the Cloud Foundry open-source developer platform, today announced that its executive director Abby Kearns is stepping down from her role to pursue an executive role elsewhere. If you’ve followed the development of the CFF for a while, it won’t come as a surprise that its current CTO, […] Continue reading Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abby Kearns steps down to pursue a new executive role elsewhere

Datastax acquires The Last Pickle

Data management company Datastax, one of the largest contributors to the Apache Cassandra project, today announced that it has acquired The Last Pickle (and no, I don’t know what’s up with that name either), a New Zealand-based Cassandra consulting and services firm that’s behind a number of popular open-source tools for the distributed NoSQL database. […] Continue reading Datastax acquires The Last Pickle

IBM brings Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift together

At the Cloud Foundry Summit in The Hague, IBM today showcased its Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment on Red Hat’s OpenShift container platform. For the longest time, the open-source Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service ecosystem and Red Hat’s Kubernetes-centric OpenShift were mostly seen as competitors, with both tools vying for enterprise customers who want to modernize their application […] Continue reading IBM brings Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift together

With its Kubernetes bet paying off, Cloud Foundry double down on developer experience

More than fifty percent of the Fortune 500 companies are now using the open-source Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service project — either directly or through vendors like Pivotal — to build, test and deploy their applications. Like so many other projects, including the likes of OpenStack, Cloud Foundry went through a bit of a transition in recent […] Continue reading With its Kubernetes bet paying off, Cloud Foundry double down on developer experience

Enterprise software is hot — who would have thought?

Once considered the most boring of topics, enterprise software is now getting infused with such energy that it is arguably the hottest space in tech. Continue reading Enterprise software is hot — who would have thought?