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Azure Linux AKS Container Host partner solutions

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Microsoft collaborates with partners to ensure your build, test, deployment, configuration, and monitoring of your applications perform optimally with Azure Linux Container Host on AKS.

The third party partners featured in this article have introduction guides to help you start using their solutions with your applications running on Azure Linux Container Host on AKS.

Partners
DevOps • Advantech
• Akuity
• Anchore
• Hashicorp
• Kong
• Kubecost
• NetApp
• VictoriaMetrics
Networking • Buoyant
• Isovalent
• Solo.io
• Tetrate
• Tigera
Observability •• Anchore
• Buoyant
• Dynatrace
• Isovalent
• Kubecost
• Solo.io
• Tigera
• VictoriaMetrics
Security • Anchore
• Buoyant
• Isovalent
• Kong
• Palo Alto Networks
• Qualys
• Solo.io
• Tetrate
• Tigera
• Wiz
Storage • Catalogic
• Veeam
• VictoriaMetrics
Config management • Corent
Migration • Catalogic
Monitoring • VictoriaMetrics

DevOps

DevOps streamlines the delivery process, improves collaboration across teams, and enhances software quality, ensuring swift, reliable, and continuous deployment of your applications.

Advantech

iFactoryEHS

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iFactoryEHS DevOps

The right EHS management system can strengthen organizations behind the scenes and enable them to continuously put their best foot forward. iFactoryEHS solution is designed to help manufacturers manage employee health, improve safety, and analyze environmental footprints while ensuring operational continuity.

For more information, see Advantech & iFactoryEHS.

FactoryOEE

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FactoryOEE DevOps

Advantech FactoryOEE is an innovative factory management tool that enhances production efficiency and focuses on energy consumption and carbon emissions.

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Through advanced data analytics, it monitors energy usage in real-time, reducing carbon footprint. We're committed to creating an efficient, eco-friendly production model, optimizing your factory for peak performance while minimizing environmental impact. Choose FactoryOEE for the perfect balance of efficiency and sustainability.

For more information, see Advantech & FactoryOEE solutions and Advantech on Azure Marketplace.

Akuity

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Akuity Platform DevOps

The Akuity Platform is a managed solution for Argo CD from the creators of Argo open source project.

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Argo Project is a suite of open source tools for deploying and running applications and workloads on Kubernetes. It extends the Kubernetes APIs and unlocks new and powerful capabilities in application deployment, container orchestration, event automation, progressive delivery, and more.

Akuity is rooted in Argo, extending its capabilities and using the same familiar user interface. The platform solves real-life DevOps use cases using battle-tested patterns packaged into a product with the best possible developer experience.

For more information, see Akuity Solutions.

Anchore

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Anchore DevOps
Observability
Security

Anchore is a software bill of materials (SBOM) powered software supply chain management solution designed for a cloud-native world.

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It provides continuous visibility into supply chain security risks. Anchore takes a developer-friendly approach that minimizes friction by embedding automation into development toolchains to generate SBOMs and accurately identify vulnerabilities, malware, misconfigurations, and secrets for faster remediation.

We’re passionate about protecting software supply chains by making it easier for developers and security teams to deliver secure cloud-native software. Together, we’ve built a platform and open source tools that help organizations secure the software they build without compromising velocity.

For more information, see Anchore solutions.

Hashicorp

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Terraform DevOps

At HashiCorp, we believe infrastructure enables innovation, and we're helping organizations to operate that infrastructure in the cloud.

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Our suite of multicloud infrastructure automation products, built on projects with source code freely available at their core, underpin the most important applications for the largest enterprises in the world. As part of the once-in-a-generation shift to the cloud, organizations of all sizes, from well-known brands to ambitious start-ups, rely on our solutions to provision, secure, connect, and run their business-critical applications so they can deliver essential services, communications tools, and entertainment platforms worldwide.

For more information, see Hashicorp solutions and Hasicorp on Azure Marketplace.

Kong

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Kong Connect DevOps
Security

Kong Konnect is the unified cloud-native API lifecycle platform to optimize any environment. It reduces operational complexity, promotes federated governance, and provides robust security by seamlessly managing Kong Gateway, Kong Ingress Controller and Kong Mesh with a single management console, delivering API configuration, portal, service catalog, and analytics capabilities.

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A unified Konnect control plane empowers businesses to:

  • Define a collection of API Data Plane Nodes that share the same configuration.
  • Provide a single control plane to catalog, connect to, and monitor the status of all control planes and instances and manage group configuration.
  • Browse APIs, reference documentation, test endpoints, and create applications using specific APIs through a customizable and unified API portal for developers.
  • Create a single source of truth by cataloging all services with the Service Hub.
  • Access key statistics, monitor vital signs, and spot patterns in real time to see how your APIs and gateways are performing.
  • Deliver a fully Kubernetes-centric operational lifecycle model through the integration of DevOps-ready config-driven API management layer and KIC’s unrivaled runtime performance.

Kong’s extensive ecosystem of community and enterprise plugins delivers critical functionality, including authentication, authorization, rate limiting, request enforcement, and caching, without increasing API platform’s footprint.

For more information, see Kong Solutions and Kong on Azure Marketplace.

Kubecost

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Kubecost Kubernetes Cost Monitoring DevOps
Observability

Kubecost provides real-time cost visibility and insights for teams using Kubernetes.

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We uncover patterns that create overspending on infrastructure and help teams prioritize where to focus optimization efforts. By identifying root causes for negative patterns, customers using Kubecost save 30-50% or more of their Kubernetes cloud infrastructure costs. Today, Kubecost empowers more than 10,000 teams across companies of all sizes to monitor and reduce costs, while balancing cost, performance, and reliability. Kubecost is tightly integrated with the open-source cloud-native ecosystem and built for engineers and developers first, making it easy to drive adoption within your organization.

For more information, see Kubecost Solutions and Kubecost on Azure Marketplace.

NetApp

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Ocean DevOps

Spot Ocean allows organizations to effectively manage their containers’ infrastructure at scale, transparently and with minimal effort.

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Ocean ensures cloud-native applications always get continuously optimized infrastructure that's balanced for performance, availability, and cost.

Spot Ocean continuously analyzes how containers use the underlying infrastructure, and automatically scales compute resources to maximize utilization and availability with an optimal blend of spot VMs, reserved instances, savings plans, and pay-as-you-go compute resources.

With Spot Ocean, users gain:

  • Automation and multicloud management: Reduce heavy lift infrastructure management efforts and increase operational efficiency
  • Cost Optimization: control and significantly reduce infrastructure cost
  • Availability: optimize uptime by predicting and automatically addressing resource needs and instance interruptions

For more information, see Spot By NetApp Solutions and Spot By NetApp on Azure Marketplace.

Networking

Ensure efficient traffic management, enhanced security, and optimal network performance.

Buoyant

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Managed Linkerd with Buoyant Cloud Networking
Security
Observability

Managed Linkerd with Buoyant Cloud automatically keeps your Linkerd control plane data plane up to date with latest versions, and handles installs, trust anchor rotation, and more.

For more information, see Buoyant Solutions and Buoyant on Azure Marketplace.

Isovalent

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Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium Networking
Security
Observability

Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium provides advanced network policy capabilities, including DNS-aware policy, L7 policy, and deny policy, enabling fine-grained control over network traffic for micro-segmentation and improved security.

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Isovalent also provides multi-cluster connectivity via Cluster Mesh, seamless networking and security across multiple clouds, including public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, as well as on-premises environments. With free service-to-service communication and advanced load balancing, Isovalent makes it easy to deploy and manage complex microservices architectures.

The Hubble flow observability + User Interface feature provides real-time network traffic flow and policy visualization, as well as a powerful User Interface for easy troubleshooting and network management. Tetragon provides advanced security capabilities such as protocol enforcement, IP and port allowlists, and automatic application-aware policy generation to protect against the most sophisticated threats. Tetragon is built on eBPF, enabling scaling to meet the needs of the most demanding cloud-native environments with ease.

Isovalent provides enterprise-grade support from their experienced team of experts, ensuring that any issues are resolved in a timely and efficient manner. Additionally, professional services help organizations deploy and manage Cilium in production environments.

For more information, see Isovalent Solutions and Isovalent on Azure Marketplace.

Solo.io

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Gloo Mesh Core Networking
Security
Observability

Gloo Mesh Core works with community Istio out of the box. You get instant insights into your Istio environment through a custom dashboard.

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Observability pipelines let you analyze many data sources that you already have. You can even automate installing and upgrading Istio with the Gloo lifecycle manager.

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Solo distribution of Istio Networking
Security
Observability

The Solo distribution of Istio is a hardened Istio enterprise image, which maintains n-4 support for CVEs and other security fixes. The image support timeline is longer than the community Istio support timeline, which provides n-1 support with an additional six weeks of extended time to upgrade the n-2 version to n-1.

For more information, see Solo Solutions and Solo Marketplace.

Tigera, Inc

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Calico Networking
Security
Observability

Fully managed, active security platform with full-stack observability for containers and Kubernetes.

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Calico Cloud enables organizations to prevent attacks using Zero Trust and to detect, troubleshoot, and automatically mitigate exposure risks from security breaches across multicloud and hybrid deployments. Calico Cloud is built on Calico Open Source, the most widely adopted container networking and security solution. It supports multiple data planes, including eBPF, Windows, and Linux.

For more information, see Tigera Solutions and Tigera on Azure Marketplace.

Observability

Observability provides deep insights into your systems, enabling rapid issue detection and resolution to enhance your application’s reliability and performance.

Dynatrace

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Dynatrace Azure Monitoring Observability

Fully automated, AI-assisted observability across Azure environments Dynatrace is a single source of truth for your cloud platforms, allowing you to monitor the health of your entire Azure infrastructure.

For more information, see Dynatrace Solutions and Dynatrace on Azure Marketplace.

Security

Ensure the integrity and confidentiality of applications and foster trust and compliance across your infrastructure.

Palo Alto Networks

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Prisma Cloud Compute Edition Security

Prisma Cloud Compute Edition by Palo Alto Networks securely accelerates your time-to-market with support for Azure Linux for AKS and enhanced Kubernetes container security. Gain full lifecycle cloud workload protection (CWP) for hosts, containers, serverless functions, web applications, and APIs.

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Protect against Layer 7 and OWASP Top 10 threats with Prisma Cloud security. Proactively reduce risk, detect vulnerabilities, and protect your applications. Agentless architecture options are also available for frictionless vulnerability scanning and risk assessment.

With Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks you get always on, real-time app visibility and control to eliminate blind spots, reduce alerts, provide security guidance, and accelerate innovation.

For more information, see Palo Alto Networks Solutions and Prisma Cloud Compute Edition on Azure Marketplace.

Qualys

Qualys Cloud Agent

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Qualys Cloud Agent Security

The Qualys Cloud Agent is a lightweight, modular software agent that enables continuous, real-time security and compliance monitoring across various environments, including SaaS platforms, on-premises systems, and cloud infrastructures.

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It supports a wide range of operating systems and architectures, such as Windows, Linux, macOS, AIX, Solaris, and specialized systems like AWS Bottlerocket. The agent provides functionalities such as vulnerability management, patching, endpoint protection, and file integrity monitoring, allowing customers to activate and deactivate capabilities based on their needs. Designed for ease of use, it facilitates seamless integration and management of security protocols across complex IT landscapes.

For more information, see Qualys Cloud Agent Solutions.

Qualys Container Security

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Qualys Container Security Security

Qualys K8s and the Container Security solution provide proactive, preventive, and reactive security for containerized applications.

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It integrates into your DevOps workflows, offering continuous real-time security and compliance throughout the containerized application lifecycle. Key features include:

  • Vulnerability management: Identifies vulnerabilities in container images, registries, and running containers, prioritizes them, and helps mitigate the most critical vulnerabilities first.
  • Runtime protection: eBPF-based runtime security monitors and protects containers in real-time, detecting and responding to malicious activities.
  • Compliance: Ensures that Kubernetes configurations and container images adhere to best practices and compliance standards, preventing misconfigurations that might lead to security breaches.
  • File integrity monitoring: Monitors changes to critical files within containers to detect and respond to unauthorized modifications.
  • Secret and malware detection: Detects secrets and malware on the left side before container images are deployed in runtime, ensuring security from the development phase.

For more information, see Qualys Container Security Solutions.

Tetrate

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Tetrate Istio Distro (TID) Security
Networking

Tetrate Istio Distro (TID) is a simple, safe enterprise-grade Istio distro, providing the easiest way of installing, operating, and upgrading.

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TID enforces fetching certified versions of Istio and enables only compatible versions of Istio installation. It includes a FIPS-compliant flavor, delivers platform-based Istio configuration validations by integrating validation libraries from multiple sources, uses various cloud provider certificate management systems to create Istio CA certs that are used for signing service mesh managed workloads, and provides multiple additional integration points with cloud providers.

For more information, see Tetrate Solutions and Tetrate on Azure Marketplace.

Wiz

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WIZ Cloud Infrastructure Security Platform Security

Wiz is the unified cloud security platform for cloud security and development teams that includes prevention, active detection, and response. Use Wiz solution to reduce risk and gain unmatched visibility, accurate prioritization, and business agility.

For more information, see Wiz Solutions and Wiz on Azure Marketplace.

Storage

Storage enables standardized and seamless storage interactions, ensuring high application performance and data consistency.

Veeam

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Kasten K10 by Veeam Storage

Veeam Kasten is the #1 Kubernetes data management product, providing an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup and restore, mobility, DR, and ransomware protection.

For more information, see Veeam Solutions and Veeam on Azure Marketplace.

Config management

Automate and standardize the system settings across your environments to enhance efficiency, reduce errors, and ensuring system stability and compliance.

Corent

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Corent MaaS Config Management

Corent MaaS provides scanning to identify workloads that can be containerized, and automatically containerizes on AKS.

For more information, see Corent Solutions and Corent on Azure Marketplace.

Migration

Migrate workloads to Azure Linux Container Host on AKS with confidence.

Catalogic

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CloudCasa by Catalogic Migration
Storage

CloudCasa by Catalogic is a Kubernetes backup, recovery, and migration solution that is fully compatible with AKS, as well as all other major Kubernetes distributions and managed services.

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Install the CloudCasa agent and let it do all the hard work of protecting and recovering your cluster resources and persistent data from human error, security breaches, and service failures, including providing the business continuity and compliance that your business requires.

From a single dashboard, CloudCasa makes cross-cluster, cross-tenant, cross-region, and cross-cloud recoveries easy. Recovery and migration from backups includes recovering an entire cluster along with your vNETs, add-ons, load balancers and more. During recovery, users can migrate to Azure Linux, and migrate storage resources from Azure Disk to Azure Container Storage.

CloudCasa can also centrally manage Azure Backup or Velero backup installations across multiple clusters and cloud providers, with migration of resources to different environments.

For more information, see CloudCasa by Catalogic Solutions and CloudCasa by Catalogic on Azure Marketplace.

Monitoring

Monitor your applications and infrastructure to ensure optimal performance and reliability.

VictoriaMetrics

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VictoriaMetrics DevOps
Observability
Storage
Monitoring

VictoriaMetrics is a high performance, cost effective, and scalable open-source time series database and monitoring solution. This solution enables users to build a monitoring platform with minimal operational burden and without scalability issues.

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You can use VictoriaMetrics to monitor services running in AKS with Azure Linux, the applications running in AKS with Azure Linux, and the underlying infrastructure. The enterprise version of VictoriaMetrics provides extra features for securing your monitoring setup, such as OIDC authentication and access control.

For more information, see VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaMetrics Support statement.

Next steps

Learn more about the Azure Linux Container Host on AKS.