Verizon adds a secure connection to Alibaba Cloud, Microsoft Azure debuts new data services; 6Wind and Advantech work together on white boxes.

The support will allow organizations to deploy Knative in a Kubernetes cluster using a one-click install via the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service user interface.

The data preparation software company immediately identified dozens of problems within its code after deploying Instana’s APM and SDK software.

Watson applications can now be run as microservices orchestrated by Kubernetes across rival cloud ecosystems like like AWS, Azure, and GCP.

The flaw basically allows an infected container to gain control of the overarching host container and allow an attacker to execute any command.

Vodafone Germany swaps out Huawei for Nokia in its core network; Sprint sues AT&T for 'fake 5G' tech; and Cisco completes its acquisition of Luxtera.

Mirantis scored an eight-figure, multi-year deal to provide the carrier with core infrastructure software that has Kubernetes running on bare metal on-premises.

The new product, based on the open source Eclipse Che integrated development environment project, enables OpenShift developers to conduct entire projects in Kubernetes..

Nutanix CEO calls VMware a bully; AT&T touts successes while it plots layoffs; demand for Kubernetes surges.

CoreDNS replaced kube-dns as the default DNS server in the most recent update of Kubernetes. It is the fourth project to graduate CNCF.

StackRox updated its container security platform with additional visibility, profiling, and network management features.

The Stackalytics numbers show that Google was the source of nearly 53 percent of all code commits, which was seven-times more than the second largest contributor, Red Hat.

The project is now working on a six-week release cycle cadence that will allow for smaller and more frequent updates.

VMware CEO Patrick Gelsinger told attendees at a recent investor conference that the company was “seeing [a] good uptick” in adoption of PKS.

The monitoring provider added Kubernetes and service-oriented monitoring tools to its SaaS-based platform.

DriveScale’s founders wanted to solve the problem of infrastructure over-provisioning. The technology wasn’t called composable infrastructure back then.

“We just opened up every Lambda function to run on Knative,” said Mark Hinkle, co-founder of TriggerMesh. “That’s a huge ecosystem.”

Reports from job boards Dice and Indeed found that Kubernetes skills were highly sought after in 2018.

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Knative is seen as an important catalyst for unifying the dozens of serverless platforms in the market.

Open source and containers found themselves at the center of M&A activity this year.

Google Cloud acquires DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA); Telecom Italia (TIM), Qualcomm, and Ericsson successfully complete a live video call using 5G mmWave spectrum; AT&T offers new security service.

The Kubernetes project made a lot of progress in 2018 in terms of maturity, stability, and scalability, which helped drive M&A activity and a greater focus on security.

The latest flaw was coincidentally announced on the same day as the latest version of Kubernetes was released. Project members said security concerns do not impact the release cycle.