KubeCon 2022 started today in person and virtually. This includes several new product releases and infrastructure updates.
CNCF has announced the first products under its certification program
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced the first set of certified products as part of the Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Certification Program.
First announced in May 2022, the CNF certification program works to assist Communication Service Providers (CSPs) as well as other telecommunications organizations in determining which Network Equipment Providers follow cloud native best practices.
According to CNCF, the CNF Certification Program uses the foundation’s CNF Test Suite and supports every product running in a certified Kubernetes environment. The CNF Test Suite is open-source and intended for telecommunications organizations to prove how well they are following cloud native best practices.
Logz.io announces Kubernetes360
The team at unified SaaS platform Logz.io today announced Kubernetes360. This release aims to unify open-source logging, metrics, and trace all in one platform purpose-built for apps deployed in Kubernetes environments.
According to Logz.io, along with the Kubernetes agent that the company released a few months ago, Kubernetes360 allows DevOps professionals to quickly achieve full observability.
This release also aims to address the challenges that come with Kubernetes’s inherent flexibility while remaining open-source and maintaining a positive user experience for troubleshooting.
ServiceNow announces new feature in Lightstep Observability Portfolio
ServiceNow, the digital workflow company, today announced the general availability of Lightstep UQL (Unified Query Language) that allows users to expand visibility into Kubernetes applications.
With Lightstep UQL, the process of moving observability from many different tools into the unified Lightstep platform is simplified through a single query language. It works to query and connect metrics, logs, and traces on demand to several Kubernetes nodes, servers, or serverless functions.
“Engineers can now use observability-as-code for more powerful and flexible insights into the health and performance of their cloud-native applications,” said Ben Sigelman, general manager and co-founder of Lightstep from on ServiceNow. “This is especially important when thinking about modern architectures like Kubernetes, which are highly complex and dynamic. Lightstep UQL works to ensure that every Kubernetes application deployed is fully deployed and observable by default.”
Komodor launches Helm Dashboard
The Kubernetes troubleshooting platform, Komodor, has today released the Helm Dashboard. This provides users with the missing Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Helm, the Kubernetes package manager.
Helm Dashboard comes as an open-source offering that runs locally and opens in the browser, allowing developers to see which Helm deployments are failing and determine what resources are causing them.
According to the company, Helm Dashboard helps developers understand whether a Helm Chart is healthy or unhealthy, provides a diff that highlights what has changed in the yaml files between deployments, and then allows to the developer to quickly apply a hotfix.
Q2iQ updates its Kaptain AI/ML platform
According to D2iQ, the enterprise Kubernetes provider, Kaptain AI/ML 2.1 enables Nvidia GPU Container Catalog (NGC) containers to be launched directly from Kubeflow, offering developers pretrained GPU-optimized model for more accurate production.
This release also features Kubeflow and MLflow integration, providing users with metadata tracking and visualization for improved performance models and tracking experiments directly from their notebooks.
Additionally, Kaptain AI/ML 2.1 offers users increased security with improved identity provider integration.
The Cosmonic PaaS developer preview is now available
WebAssembly pioneer Cosmonic has announced that it will offer full developer access to its distributed application development platform.
Cosmonic PaaS is a lightweight, low-boilerplate environment that works to simplify application development and enables developers to run their apps faster anywhere at scale.
The main benefits of the platform include the ability to quickly move from sketch, the ability for developers to bring their own laptops, cloud resources, or data centers with super constellations, the ability for applications to run everywhere, ripe with automation and security, and the ability for developers to interface smoothly with operations, at a higher level.
Dell Technologies has announced infrastructure updates
According to the company, there are three areas in which it is investing: adding container support, accelerating DevOps practices, and creating multi-cloud consistency.
Among these updates is an expanded strategic relationship with Red Hat including three solutions for OpenShift, a deeper relationship with VMware, and solutions for Amazon EKS Anywhere, Google Anthos, Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service, and SUSE Rancher.
Additionally, Dell offers usage-based pricing so users don’t have to pay for over-provisioned resources. The company has also created a standardized set of RESTful APIs that enable software control of its products.
WSO2 released the latest version of Asgardeo IDaaS
API management company WSO2 today announced the release of Asgardeo identity as a service (IDaaS). It works to add integration with Choreo, WSO2’s digital platform as a service (digital PaaS).
The company said this new version of Asgardeo will build on its business-to-consumer capabilities by adding business-to-business (B2B) support through new B2B organization management functionality.
“More and more, businesses that have successfully used CIAM to build trusted relationships with consumers are now looking to make CIAM the foundation for delivering rich, personalized experiences to all customers,” said Geethika Cooray, vice president and general manager of identity and access management at WSO2. “The latest release of our Asgardeo IDaaS uniquely empowers these organizations to realize their goals by making the next level of CIAM a reality by integrating with Choreo and adding the industry’s strongest support for B2B organization management.”
Solo.io announced that Istio Ambient Mesh will be available on Gloo Mesh
Cloud-native application company Solo.io has announced that it will launch Istio Ambient Mesh on Gloo Mesh version 2.2.
This release is intended to support the new sidecar-less ambient mode in Istio that launched in September of 2022.
Key features of this release include no sidecar injection; the creation of ‘ztunnel’, a lightweight mechanism for securing and routing traffic; and the creation of waypoint proxies to implement Layer 7 policies and reporting.
Ambassador Labs latest product release
The cloud-native developer experience company announced a new set of enhancements available in Ambassador Cloud aimed at speeding up the self-service Kubernetes developer team workflow.
According to the company, with this, teams get access to a robust integration with the Ambassador Cloud Service Catalog with Telepresence. It works to simplify the process teams go through to view and manage both services and clusters in their organization.
Additionally, the Ambassador Edge Stack now offers users an updated Cloud Diagnostics UI intended to allow any developer in the organization the ability to gain insight into active API routes, configuration notifications, and more.