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.

AT&T deploys white box cell-site routers in production; VMware CEO lists his top 3 priorities; Huawei's CFO is arrested.

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.

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.