VMblog visits the Kasten booth during KubeCon 2019 in San Diego.

Kasten is tackling Day 2 data management challenges to help enterprises confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, a data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity.

VMblog visits the Chef booth during KubeCon 2019 in San Diego.

Corey Scobie, CTO at Chef, shares information about the NEW Chef and describes how they work with Kubernetes. Scobie also talks about Chef open sourcing 100% of its offerings under the Apache 2 license.

Watch the demo of Chef Habitat which enables modern application teams to build, deploy, and run any application in any environment – from traditional data-centers to containerised microservices.  Chef Habitat provides built-in support for service discovery, configuration management, supervision, monitoring & health checks, rolling updates, deployment topologies, strict dependency management, and cross platform constituency.

VMblog visits the Wallarm booth during KubeCon 2019 in San Diego.

Moving Kubernetes into production reliably and fast relies on security designed for the cloud. Wallarm Cloud-Native WAF delivers native security which scales with K8s and adds little if any latency.

The company showcased demos of kubernetes-native security with Wallarm delivering security automation in development (integrated in CI/CD) as well as run-time.

VMblog visits the Sauce Labs booth during KubeCon 2019 in San Diego. Sauce

Headless is all about facilitating shift-left motion. It enables development teams to get fast feedback on code and increase build efficiency by running atomic tests wherever they're needed, but especially early in the delivery pipeline. It works by leveraging headless Chrome and Firefox browsers on Linux in a Kubernetes, container-based environment. In other words, you can now put the theory behind shift-left testing into practice and test on every commit. Then you pair that with full cross-browser testing at the end of the development process, and you've got a truly holistic testing strategy.

VMblog visits the Containous booth during KubeCon 2019 in San Diego.

Containous is on a mission to make routing simpler so developers can focus on building instead of operating. They deliver open source routing software specifically built for a world of containers and microservices. From Traefik the open source cloud native edge proxy and TraefikEE its commercial offering, to Maesh open source SMI-compliant Service Mesh for Kubernetes, their products are fitting in the cloud native landscape with a focus on openness, simplicity, scalability, reliability and high availability.

VMblog visits the Mirantis booth during KubeCon 2019 in San Diego.

Mirantis provides a continuously delivered multi-cloud container management platform based on Kubernetes and a full stack of ecosystem technologies.

Kubernetes is creating a new way for enterprises to build and run software as they move to cloud. However, lifecycle management for a fleet of Kubernetes clusters with full stack support is an unsolved challenge. With the introduction of Mirantis Kubernetes-as-a-Service (KaaS), enterprises get zero touch, self-service Kubernetes clusters with a consistent developer experience across public clouds and on-prem infrastructure.

VMblog visits the Lacework booth during KubeCon 2019 in San Diego.

Lacework brings a comprehensive platform approach to security for modern environments. As organizations operate in an environment from build time and DevOps into run time with workloads and accounts, it's far more efficient and accurate to apply a single security platform across this entire continuous set of operations.

Additionally, companies are using a mix of cloud, containers, on-prem, bare metal, and other ways to create and transact data and users. Point products for each of these scenarios does not give the level of insight required to effectively identify vulnerabilities. But having a platform provides deep visibility into activities, irrespective of how related or unrelated they are. Watch and learn how they approach security with a comprehensive, build-time to run-time approach. And see how their behavioral anomaly detection achieves more accurate understanding of risks and vulnerabilities.

VMblog visits the A10 Networks booth during KubeCon 2019 in San Diego.

At the show, A10 Networks showcased their 5G Virtual Network Function (VNF) which can be deployed at Edge or in Core and provides enhanced security and traffic steering for 5G deployments. They offered an opportunity for attendees to see a real-time NFV solution, that demonstrates 5G capabilities for voice and video services.

VMblog visits the Pulumi booth during KubeCon 2019 in San Diego to learn more about their modern infrastructure as code platform.

Pulumi enables teams to create, deploy and manage cloud applications and infrastructure on any cloud - public, private, or hybrid - including AWS, Azure, GCP and Kubernetes, using open source tools and libraries. Using general purpose languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go and .NET (C#/F#/VB.NET), teams enjoy better productivity, sharing and reuse, and access to existing ecosystems of tools, test frameworks and more.

VMblog visits RackN during KubeCon 2019 in San Diego.

Learn more about RackN and how they are helping to change the economics of the data center. They are building upon their open source project, Digital Rebar, and developing next generation infrastructure automation software for provisioning bare metal, VMs, clouds, and edges. And with that, they are also able to make Kubernetes deployments much more stable and predictable at the same time.