Amazon Web Services opens in Sweden; Apple expands across the US; and the Hyperledger project expands its membership.

The carrier is near the half-way point on its 5-year journey in taking advantage of public cloud platforms.

That amount was a substantial premium over what Heptio had raised from investors and other similar deals in the Kubernetes space.

In order for Kubernetes to infiltrate more than 100,000 organizations, the ecosystem needs to tackle business cases, management, and training.

Etcd is the primary storage location for Kubernetes and needs to be established before Kubernetes can be run on a system.

The collaboration focuses on the three biggest container pain areas for enterprises: 1) networking; 2) visibility; and 3) security.

The NSX Service Mesh beta will initially support Cloud PKS (formerly known as VMware Kubernetes Engine or VKE), but VMware plans to extend it to any Kubernetes environment.

The Pivotal Function Service is the first multi-cloud packaging of the Kubernetes-based Knative project and operates alongside the Pivotal Application Service and Pivotal Container Service.

“Obviously I love my vSAN child. It’s not as important as my NSX child,” VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said, referring to VMware’s software-defined storage and networking platform, respectively.

It affects all Kubernetes-based products and services, and it gives hackers full administrative privileges on any compute node being run in a Kubernetes cluster.

IT professionals list Microsoft Azure as the best cloud provider in terms of cost effectiveness, having the most advanced tools, reliability, and having the best support for container environments.

Google Cloud lands in Hong Kong; Infinera adds optical network to its open line system; and plenty of news from AWS re:Invent.

The service mesh proxy was initially developed by Lyft and breezed through the CNCF incubation process a year faster than its fellow graduates.

The open source platform acts as a next-generation hypervisor targeted at modern architectures and already powers AWS' Lambda and Fargate services.

Within GKE, Istio will collect telemetry about a running container and send that information to either Stackdriver or Prometheus to allow an organization to monitor the health of that

“When there is an economic recession that is when people pull in their horns," says Forrester VP John Rymer.

Its Cloud Migration Factory platform gained new automation features, while its Multicloud Management Platform was infused with ServiceNow support.

The latest update uses an in-house developed open source version of OpenStack that provides for more agility and a smaller footprint to support edge computing environments.

Scalyr’s technology centralizes server monitoring, log management, and visualization and analysis tools to monitor and manage modern architectures.

The company now supports the six largest Kubernetes providers in the world.

The OpenStack Platform 14 update makes it easier to install and run OpenShift in that environment and to run Kubernetes-orchestrated containers on bare metal.

The Ceph project is a unified distributed storage system providing applications with object, block, and file system interfaces.

Docker containerizes Windows Server 2008; Rumors fly that Thoma Bravo will buy Symantec; CommScope buys Arris.

While Cisco adds Kubernetes support across its portfolio, other vendors like VMware and IBM recently bought companies to boost their container cred.