We’re introducing new additions to the open supply initiatives led by the Cisco Engineering group which might be contributing extra security measures and performance for Kubernetes and cloud native environments.
From April 18-21, 2023, the Cisco Rising Applied sciences and Incubation group (ET&I) will probably be becoming a member of 1000’s of cloud native fanatics at this 12 months’s KubeCon+ CloudNativeCon in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is a improbable alternative to focus on the developments made within the open supply initiatives and ET&I merchandise that proceed to enhance safety instruments, danger stock within the utility stack, and utility modernization to broaden the boundaries of cloud native environments.
Let’s dive in to what’s new:
Deal with vulnerabilities in cloud native environments with VMClarityÂ
Do you know that digital machines (VMs) are the primary most-used service on public clouds and the predominant technique for internet hosting containers? The ensuing assault paths may be extra elaborate than Amsterdam’s canal system. We noticed a necessity to supply safety for VMs in opposition to safety threats reminiscent of leaked secrets and techniques, malware, and rootkit in addition to system misconfigurations and vulnerability scanning, as they’re nonetheless very a lot a part of how companies run within the cloud.
That’s why we developed VMClarity, part of the OpenClarity suite of initiatives—to deal with the vulnerabilities of utilizing digital machines in cloud native environments.
VMClarity offers agentless detection and administration of Software program Invoice of Supplies (SBOMs); and since it’s agentless, cloud native safety and observability on VMs are enhanced with out writing or modifying any code. This new open supply venture is on the market on GitHub.
Simply lengthen service mesh capabilities with Nasp
Nasp is a brand new venture created to supply service mesh-type capabilities to non-cloud endpoints and smaller cloud environments. This light-weight, library-based open supply service mesh extender can deliver functions working on edge units, legacy VMs, and cellular purchasers into the Kubernetes service mesh. Purposes utilizing Nasp are dealt with as commonplace service mesh workloads with out the necessity for devoted proxies. Obtain the venture to study extra.
Run real-time media functions with Media Streaming Mesh
We’re additionally introducing Media Streaming Mesh (MSM), an open supply venture that runs real-time media functions in cloud native Kubernetes environments extra effectively.
As Kubernetes is designed for working internet functions (that are by default non real-time), media functions are run in real-time for actions reminiscent of dwell media contribution and distribution, analytics of dwell media for real-time machine studying evaluation or facial recognition, and dwell feed viewing, to call a number of.
Media Streaming Mesh allows media streaming functions to be run in cloud native and Kubernetes environments with out the workarounds. Like a service mesh, MSM offloads the media streaming from the applying utilizing the Kubernetes surroundings successfully and because it was designed. Media Streaming Mesh will probably be obtainable in a GitHub repository within the upcoming months.
Continued dedication to innovation by way of open supply
We’re dedicated to persevering with our open supply contributions to strengthen cloud native utility safety and modernizing functions within the cloud native space. We’re proud to say that by way of our Open Supply Program Workplace, engineering and neighborhood groups, we contribute to quite a few CNCF initiatives, SIGs, and committees. Add within the contributions we’ve made in established open supply initiatives which might be a part of organizations reminiscent of The Linux Basis and the Cloud Native Computing Basis, and we’re completely satisfied to say we’re simply getting began. Be part of us on this journey!
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