The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced the Golden Kubestronaut program, a distinguished recognition for professionals who have demonstrated the highest level of expertise in Kubernetes, cloud native technologies, and Linux administration.
Automic announced integration with Cloud Foundry, an open source cloud computing Platform as a Service (PaaS), providing a range of developer languages and frameworks, application services and cloud deployment options for users.
The new Automic Cloud Foundry plug-in integrates with Automic's Release Automation product enabling users to integrate their release and deployment activities seamlessly across cloud and on-premises applications. The Cloud Foundry Action Pack is available immediately from the Automic Marketplace.
Together, Automic Release Automation and the Cloud Foundry plug-in uniquely enable users to coordinate and maintain their automation and orchestration requirements above and across a variety of applications and software delivery tools chains.
“We are thrilled to announce the inclusion of a Cloud Foundry plug-in to our ever-growing list of integrations within the Automic Marketplace”, said John Purrier, CTO of Automic. We see Application Release Automation as the glue that connects software delivery and deployment on-premises and in the cloud. Put simply, our Release Automation product coordinates with a variety of products in the market, including Cloud Foundry, in order to provide our customers with a convenient point of control for orchestration and automation throughout the lifecycle of application delivery”.
The Automic Cloud Foundry action pack supports user’s ability to:
- Quickly and simply build, test, deploy and scale applications in the cloud.
- Build visual workflows to fully automate common Cloud Foundry related activities around authentication, services, and applications.
- Efficiently adopt cloud-native applications and services and integrate them to other existing applications and enterprise processes in a scalable and automated way.
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Komodor announced a new approach to full-cycle drift management for Kubernetes, with new capabilities to automate the detection, investigation, and remediation of configuration drift—the gradual divergence of Kubernetes clusters from their intended state—helping organizations enforce consistency across large-scale, multi-cluster environments.
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CloudCasa by Catalogic announced the availability of the latest version of its CloudCasa software.
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