Google and New Relic announce new Kubernetes services

More vendor news from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon

We continue our summary of vendor announcements from the Kubernetes Conference + CloudFirst Conference Europe with a pair of press releases from Google and New Relic.

Google Cloud has announced that Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) features will soon be available in its Cloud Security Command Center. The latter is a set of tools that provides an overview of assets on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and adds vulnerability scanning, checks for sensitive information and alerts when information is publically accessible. The service is currently in Alpha.

Extending the service to cover Kubernetes clusters will allow customers to "view security alerts for their GKE clusters in a single pane of glass, and choose how to best take action," says Google.

The company has also announced five vendor partnerships to extend the number of options for container security on GCP. Aqua Security, Capsule8, Stackrox, Sysdig Secure and Twistlock are now integrated with the Cloud Security Command Centre.

"These technical integrations allow customers to use these cutting-edge tools for their deployments, and view the service's findings and recommendations directly on GCP," according to Google's blog.

Web and application SaaS analytics firm New Relic also has a new tool to allow users to understand more about what is going on in their Kubernetes clusters.

"Kubernetes adoption at a rapid pace, but because orchestration automation means less control and visibility, teams can quickly lose track of what's happening in their clusters," says Ramon Guiu, director, product management.

This lack of visibility, the company claims, can lead to problems such as overloading of the Kubernetes API with too many requests and crashes due to a shortage of memory if containers have not been correctly configured.

The company has unveiled its New Relic Infrastructure on-host integration for Kubernetes which it says "provides full monitoring of the container orchestration layer. This integration collects metrics that monitor data and metadata for nodes, namespaces, deployments, replica sets, pods and containers".

Among the alerts that can be set are warnings about actual vs. limit CPU and memory for containers, actual vs. desired Pod replicas, Kubernetes components that are down and custom queries about Kubernetes data.