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KubeCon EU Highlights: CloudEvents & Falco Graduate, Beta Tetragon , Linkerd Meshes Legacy Systems
As highlighted at the recent KubeCon and CNCF EU conference, the count of CNCF graduated projects has reached twenty-six, as Cloud Events and Falco joined the “boring, but safe project list”. Linkerd added mesh extended capabilities for legacy systems; in this way, you can extend the governance and security policies of your mesh. The Beta version of Cilium Tetragon is deployed by early adopters.
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HashiCorp Released Version 2.3 of Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes
Hashicorp recently released the version 2.3 of Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes with a new feature: the ability to initiate workspace runs declaratively. The Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes was introduced in November 2023 with the goal to provide a Kubernetes-native experience while leveraging Terraform workflows
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KubeCon EU: Backstage, Crossplane and Others Preparing for CNCF Graduation
More projects from the CNCF incubated level are preparing to graduate for an ever-widening cloud native ecosystem. The Backstage community has worked on a more robust architecture, and Crossplane aimed to improve its developer DX. KubeFlow and Volcano, both tools promising to improve AI adoption within the Kubernetes ecosystem, are working on easier installation and more features, respectively.
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DigitalOcean Introduces CPU-Based Autoscaling for its App Plaform
DigitalOcean has launched automatic horizontal scaling for its App Platform PaaS, aiming to free developers from the burden of scaling services up or down based on CPU load all by themselves.
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Dagger Enables Developer Functions for CI/CD and Opens the Daggerverse
The open-source Dagger project, which aims to be "CI/CD as code that runs anywhere," recently released version 0.10. This release introduces custom Dagger Functions, a feature that simplifies CI scripts while expanding possibilities for developers seeking cleaner, more efficient pipelines. Also announced is the Daggerverse - a searchable index for public Dagger Functions.
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AI, Orchestration, Native Network and K8sGPT: KubeCon EU Highlights New CNCF Sandbox Projects
As highlighted at the recent KubeCon EU 2024 conference, several new projects joined the CNCF sandbox in December across a range of categories: kube-burner in CI/CD, Kuasar in the container runtime, K8sgpt in the observability, KRKN in chaos engineering, easegress in API Gateway, spider pool in Cloud-native network and kubestellar in Scheduling and Orchestration.
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SUSE Announces Upgrades to Kubernetes and Edge Management Products
SUSE, a provider of open source software solutions, including SUSE Linux Enterprise, Rancher Prime (a Kubernetes management platform), and NeuVector Prime (a Kubernetes container security platform), has unveiled significant upgrades to its cloud-native and Edge portfolio. These enhancements aim to help customers securely deploy and manage business-critical workloads across diverse environments.
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CNCF Incubates Strimzi to Simplify Kafka on Kubernetes
The Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has approved Strimzi as an incubating project to streamline the deployment of Apache Kafka on Kubernetes. Strimzi provides a Kubernetes-native way to interact with Kafka through a set of operators that extend the Kubernetes API making it easier to configure, deploy, and operate Kafka on Kubernetes.
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Oracle Announces Oracle Cloud Native 1.8, Supports ARM and Kubernetes 1.28
The Oracle Linux team recently announced the release of Oracle Cloud Native Environment 1.8, a scalable Kubernetes distribution designed for deploying containerized applications in both public cloud environments and on-premise setups. This release includes Kubernetes 1.28 and introduces support for the latest Oracle Linux 8 and Oracle Linux 9 releases on x86_64 and aarch64 architectures.
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Hubber Codespace Improves Inner-Loop Testing at GitHub
GitHub's Developer Experience (DX) team has recently unveiled a new tool aimed at streamlining the inner-loop development process within its distributed service ecosystem. Named "Hubber Codespace" (HCS), the solution addresses some challenges posed by integration testing in a modular team structure where different services are developed and operated independently.
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Finch 1.1.1: AWS Enhances Windows Compatibility for Open Source Container Development Tool
AWS recently announced the general availability of Windows support for Finch, an open-source CLI tool. Finch enables developers to create, execute, and distribute Linux containers on both Windows and macOS. It streamlines container development by combining a minimalistic native client with select open-source components.
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Falco, Cloud-Native Security Tool for Kubernetes, Graduates from CNCF
CNCF announced the graduation of Falco, a tool designed for Linux systems and a de facto Kubernetes threat-detection engine. The project successfully met all graduation requirements, including undergoing the due diligence process, completing a third-party security audit, and obtaining the software licensing approvals.
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Glasskube an Emerging Kubernetes Package Management System
The cloud-native landscape is thriving, but a crucial aspect remains missing: a robust package management system. Glasskube, an open-source emerging project in this domain, with its first release (v0.0.1) wants to close this gap.
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CNCF Survey: Half of Organizations Spend More with Kubernetes, Mostly Due to Overprovisioning
CNCF published the results of its latest microsurvey report on cloud-native FinOps and cloud financial management (CFM). Kubernetes has driven cloud spending up for 49% of respondents, while 28% stated their costs remain unchanged and 24% saved after migrating to Kubernetes. Respondents listed overprovisioning, lack of awareness and responsibility, and sprawl as the main factors for overspending.
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Docker Desktop 4.27 Brings Docker Init GA with Java Support, Synchronized File Shares, and More
Docker has released Docker Desktop 4.27. This version brings Docker Init GA with Java support, synchronized File Shares, support for Test Containers with Enhanced Container Isolation, Docker build cloud, Docker Debug and more.