Mirantis helps organizations gain complete control over their strategic infrastructure. The company combines intelligent automation and cloud native expertise for managing and operating virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud environments. Mirantis lets platform teams deliver a public cloud experience on any infrastructure, from the data center to the edge, with one cohesive cloud experience for complete application and operations portability, a single pane of glass, and automated full-stack lifecycle management, all based on open source using open standard APIs.Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises, including Adobe, DocuSign, Inmarsat, PayPal, Societe Generale, and S&P Global. Learn more at www.mirantis.com.

Mirantis named a Challenger in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management

Mirantis has once again been recognized among players in the container management market, joining giants like AWS, Microsoft, and Google in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management. We’re proud to be named as a Challenger, which we feel is a testament to our commitment to delivering open source, vendor-neutral, enterprise-grade container solutions.

Learn Kubernetes 5 Minutes at a Time

Kubernetes is notoriously challenging—but many developers are expected to learn it on the run. That’s why we created a book for developers who need a crash course in Kubernetes…and who need it now.

k0s vs k3s Comparison Chart

k0s and k3s are both popular open source Kubernetes distributions with small footprints—but which is right for your use-case? Easily compare the most important k0s and k3s features and characteristics, including security accreditation, system requirements, major components, and more.

Join us for a special VMblog spotlight video ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023, with Ambassador Labs, Aserto, BellSoft, CloudCasa, JFrog, and SentinelOne, six innovative companies that are leading the way in Kubernetes and cloud native computing.

These companies are at the forefront of developing new technologies and solutions that are helping organizations to build, deploy, and manage their cloud native applications more effectively and efficiently.

In this video, you will learn about:

• Ambassador Labs: Ambassador Labs is revolutionizing the way development teams code, test, ship and run Kubernetes applications. Their flagship products, Edge Stack and Telepresence, are used by global enterprises to accelerate deployment and facilitate collaboration across the full lifecycle of cloud native software delivery. Ambassador Labs was an early Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) open source project contributor, and their Emissary-ingress and Telepresence projects are used by hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide.
  
  
• Aserto: Aserto is a cloud-native authorization platform that enables organizations to implement fine-grained access control for their applications and data. Aserto's fine-grained approach to authorization makes it easy to define and manage complex access policies, and to ensure that users only have access to the resources they need. 
  
  
• BellSoft: BellSoft is a major contributor to the OpenJDK project, and Liberica JDK, our branded OpenJDK runtime, is the Java runtime of choice for VMware, Spring Framework, JetBrains, and millions of users around the world. We are the only OpenJDK vendor that supports all LTS Java versions, legacy JDK 6 & 7 and Liberica NIK, the GraalVM-based native-image compiler. Our Java platform, Liberica JDK, provides a unified Java experience across the organization, delivering a more secure, reliable, and cost-effective approach to application development on any platform and in any environment. Liberica JDK Performance Edition, currently available for JDK 11 and expected for JDK 8, allows you to boost your app’s performance with JVM 17 features without migration. Performance Edition is available in Alpaquita containers, which is critical for enterprise cloud-based Java development.
  
  
• CloudCasa: CloudCasa by Catalogic provides innovative multi-cloud data protection, migration, and disaster recovery for Kubernetes applications and cloud data services. CloudCasa is fully compatible and complementary to Velero, the open-source Kubernetes backup tool that has been downloaded over 100 million times.
  
  
• JFrog: Driven by a “Liquid Software” vision, the JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform is a single system of record that powers organizations to build, manage, and distribute software quickly and securely, ensuring it is available, traceable, and tamper-proof. The integrated security features also help identify, protect, and remediate against threats and vulnerabilities. JFrog’s hybrid, universal, multi-cloud platform is available as both self-hosted and SaaS services across major cloud service providers. Millions of users and 7K+ customers worldwide, including a majority of the Fortune 100, depend on JFrog solutions to securely embrace digital transformation.
  
  
• SentinelOne: SentinelOne is a cybersecurity company that provides the world's first Singularity XDR platform. SentinelOne’s Singularity Platform detects, prevents, and responds to cyber attacks at machine speed, empowering organizations to secure endpoints, cloud workloads, containers, identities, and mobile and network-connected devices with speed, accuracy and simplicity.

This video is a must-watch for anyone who is interested in learning more about the latest innovations in Kubernetes and cloud native computing. It is also a great resource for organizations that are looking for new solutions to help them build, deploy, and manage their cloud native applications more effectively and efficiently.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is the premier event for Kubernetes and cloud native computing. It is taking place in November 2023, and these six companies will be showcasing their latest products and solutions at the event. If you are attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, be sure to visit their booths to learn more about how their solutions can help you to succeed in your cloud native journey.

ThreatX is API and application protection that lets you secure them with confidence, not complexity – from the edge to runtime. It blocks botnets and advanced attacks in real time, letting enterprises keep attackers at bay without lifting a finger. Trusted by companies in every industry across the globe, ThreatX profiles attackers and blocks advanced risks to protect APIs and applications 24/7. Learn more at https://www.threatx.com.  

Resources:

ThreatX Runtime API and Application Protection

Protecting Against Runtime Threats to APIs and Applications

Managed API and Application Protection

ngrok is a secure unified ingress platform that combines global server load balancing, reverse proxy, firewall, API gateway, and Kubernetes Ingress Controller to deliver applications and APIs across every stage of the development lifecycle from any cloud, datacenter, or home network. ngrok brings secure ingress to your test/dev environments, external networks you don't control as well as apps and APIs in production. Over 5 million developers use ngrok for testing webhooks and previewing apps and the world’s top technology brands — including Microsoft, GitHub, Okta, Shopify, Zoom and Twilio — advocate ngrok as a key integration partner. ngrok is venture-backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Coatue.  Learn more at ngrok.com.

Follow on social:

Twitter - https://twitter.com/ngrokHQ

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/ngrok

Resources:

Databricks accelerates time to value at scale with ngrok

Kubernetes ingress with ngrok and Hashicorp Consul

Static domains available now for all ngrok users

CAST AI is an all-in-one Kubernetes cost optimization and automation platform that achieves over 60% average compute cost savings without months of onboarding. You get lightning-fast autoscaling, downscaling, spot VM support with fallback, and more with no hit to performance. 

Follow on social:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=cast_ai

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cast.ai.platform

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cast-ai/

Resoures:

CAST AI

Free Kubernetes cost monitoring

Cloud cost optimization

Equinix is the world’s leading digital infrastructure company. You can deploy powerful, dedicated bare metal across 25+ global metros in minutes.

Follow Us:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Equinix

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Equinix/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/equinix/

Resources:

Read about how Alpine Linux uses Equinix Metal

Read about how Flatcar Linux uses Equinix Metal

Deploy your first server

Mezmo helps organizations unlock the value of their telemetry data. Cloud native and built for enterprise scale, Mezmo’s platform makes it easier to control costs and take action. Mezmo fuels massive productivity gains for modern engineering teams at hyper-growth startups and Fortune 500 companies alike.

Mezmo is the sole logging provider for IBM Cloud, where they’ve partnered to drive innovation in observability at hyper scale since 2018. The company has been recognized as one of Forbes’ Cloud 100 Rising Stars, Gartner’s Top 25 Enterprise Software Startups to Watch, CRN’s 10 Hottest Cloud Startups, and Fortune’s Best Small and Medium Workplaces, and it received the IBM Cloud Embed Excellence Award.

Website: https://www.mezmo.com/

Product: https://www.mezmo.com/telemetry-pipeline
Get Started for Free: https://www.mezmo.com/sign-up-pipeline-today
Request for Free Telemetry Data Profiling: https://go.mezmo.com/telemetry-data-profiling-offer
Webinar: https://www.mezmo.com/resources/observability-optimized-5-steps-to-telemetry-transformation

Transposit is a next-gen AI-powered incident management platform that gives IT Ops and SRE teams superpowers. Amidst today’s tool overload, Transposit's end-to-end automation guides teams with instant contextual awareness and improves efficiency by 100x. At the center of Transposit is its 24/7 AI operator, a tireless team member customized to understand every customer’s unique environment to offer suggestions and surface automations. Transposit uniquely guides teams through the entire incident lifecycle with on-call management, automated runbooks, and thousands of integrations and automations. Its human-in-the-loop approach to AI enhances the unique expertise of humans, empowering teams to accelerate response and resolution.

Website: 

www.transposit.com

Resources:

Transposit AI Operator
Transposit On-Call
Transposit Incident Response

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform for software innovation. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 40 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/gitlab

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gitlab

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gitlab-com

Resources:

https://about.gitlab.com/ 

https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-duo/ 

https://about.gitlab.com/why-gitlab/ 

CNCF's flagship event will bring together thousands of open source and cloud native enthusiasts

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced the schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023, happening in Chicago, Illinois, and virtually from November 6 – 9.

Exactly seven years after the inaugural KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2016 event in Seattle, the conference is back in the United States with a stellar lineup curated by event co-chairs – Aparna Subramanian, of Shopify, Frederick Kautz, and Nikhita Raghunath of VMware. With the help of the program committee consisting of 119 community members and 22 track chairs, they have reviewed an incredible 1871 submissions – the most to date – to develop a diverse and informative schedule this year. Attendees will be able to choose from 196 sessions, keynotes, lightning talks, and breakout sessions both in-person and virtually, with 97 CNCF project maintainer-hosted sessions featuring content that will appeal to technologists across industries and experience levels.