Kubernetes press release roundup: Cisco and Weaveworks

Announcements from Cisco and Weaveworks

As the cumbersomely titled KubeCon + CloudNativeCon kicks off in Copenhagen, Computing has received a barrage of press releases concerning vendors' products, services and support for the red-hot Kubernetes container orchestration platform. Here's a couple that arrived today.

First up is Cisco, which has put out a bevvy of announcements about moving a couple of its cloud and networking products closer to the container action.

AppDynamics, product of the the application performance management (APM) and IT operations analytics (ITOA) company which Cisco acquired last year and the firm's application orchestration solution Cisco CloudCenter both now support Kubernetes.

"Together, Cisco CloudCenter 4.9 and AppDynamics for Kubernetes set a new standard for Kubernetes in production by allowing enterprises to seamlessly deploy, monitor, and optimise their Kubernetes-orchestrated applications both on-premises and in public cloud environments," says the Cisco press release.

AppDynamics for Kubernetes offers end-to-end visibility of application performance Kubernetes across multi-cloud environments and "provides granular level details on application, Kubernetes and Docker container performance metrics," the company claims, adding that it also allows users to automate root cause analysis and correlate Kubernetes performance with business metrics.

Meanwhile "Cisco CloudCenter 4.9 is a key element of the open, hybrid cloud offering from Cisco and Google, announced in October 2017 and planned for availability later this year."

The other announcement today comes from Weaveworks, the producer of Weave software for managing and monitoring Docker containers. Weaveworks is launching what it calls its "Enterprise GitOps Services", a "support subscription and consulting service for enterprise customers using Kubernetes and CNCF technologies in production."

The package is targeted at large organisations running hybrid and multi-cloud setups, and offers the services of site reliability engineers or SREs (a term coined by Google) to help to automate, accelerate and audit the rollout of Kubernetes and supported applications.

Computing will be attendance KubCon + CloudNativeCon this week so watch this space for further news coming from the event.