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BellSoft Introduces Alpaquita Linux for Containerized Java Applications
BellSoft has released Alpaquita Linux, an operating system based upon Alpine Linux, optimized for containerized Java applications. A plain Docker image is available, as well as Docker images with Liberica JDK or JRE or a Native Image Kit based upon GraalVM. Alternatively, Alpaquita Linux can be installed via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), Linux repositories or an ISO file.
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Google Cloud Deploy Adds Deployment Verification, Support for Cloud Run
Google has added deployment verification capabilities to its Google Cloud Deploy tool. This new feature is in preview release and makes use of recent updates to Skaffold. Along with this announcement, Google has also added support for Cloud Run to Google Cloud Deploy.
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GitLab Cloud Seed Aims to Simplify Google Cloud Integration
At Google Next '22, GitLab launched GitLab Cloud Seed, a new open-source solution integrated in GitLab One DevOps platform that aims to simplify Google Cloud account management, deployment to Google Cloud Run, and Google SQL database provisioning.
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Google Distroless Images Achieve SLSA Level 2
Google announced that their distroless builds meet level 2 of the Supply chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA). Level 2 requires that the build process for these images is tamper resistant. This improves on their previous release which saw all images being signed with cosign.
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Undistro Wolfi Designed to Mitigate Software Supply Chain Risk
Chainguard has announced the general availability of Wolfi, a new Linux distribution designed for container environments and built to ensure a secure software supply chain. Wolfi is designed to be a minimal distribution that provides a build-time SBOM for all included packages.
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Google Distributed Cloud Virtual Now Supports Virtual Machines
Recently Google announced the general availability of virtual machine (VM) support in Anthos for bare metal, also known as Google Distributed Cloud Virtual (GDC), which will allow customers to run VMs alongside containers on a single, unified, Google Cloud-connected platform in their data center or at the edge.
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Debugging Large and Complex Dockerfiles Gets Easier with Buildg
Kohei Tokunaga has released buildg - an interactive tool for debugging Dockerfiles. The motivation for the project is to provide an easy-to-use interactive tool to inspect this build process. The tool also containers support for debugging Dockerfiles directly from inside several popular IDEs (Integrated Developer Environments), such as VS Code, Emacs and Neovim.
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Kubernetes Control Plane Metrics Now Available in Google Kubernetes Engine
Google has announced the general availability of Kubernetes control plane metrics in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). These metrics are directly integrated with Google Cloud Monitoring providing a single solution for troubleshooting issues with GKE. Integration with third-party observability tooling is also possible via the Cloud Monitoring API.
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.NET 7 SDK Now Supports Building Containerised Apps
Microsoft announced on August 25th that .NET 7 SDK will include support for creating containerised applications as part of a build publish process, bypassing the need for explicit Docker build phase.
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CNCF Publishes the Kubernetes Policy Management Whitepaper
The CNCF recently published a new whitepaper about Kubernetes Policy Management. The whitepaper highlights the importance of Kubernetes policy management when it comes to the security and automation of clusters as well as workloads. Also, it goes in-depth into the problems Kubernetes policies solve and the proper implementation of such policies.
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AWS Expands Amazon Detective for Kubernetes Workloads on Amazon EKS
Amazon Detective is a security service in AWS that allows customers to analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities. Recently, AWS announced the expansion of Amazon Detective towards Kubernetes workloads on Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service.
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VMware vSphere+ and vSAN+ Promise to Bring the Benefits of the Cloud to On-Premises Workloads
Recently announced, VMware vSphere+ and vSAN+ integrate Kubernetes with VMware virtualization technology to help transform on-premises workloads into SaaS-enabled infrastructure and simplify its management and evolution, says VMware.
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CNCF Accepts KubeVirt as an Incubating Project
Recently, the CNCF promoted KubeVirt from the sandbox to incubating project level. KubeVirt enables users to run virtual machine workloads on top of Kubernetes in a Kubernetes-native way.
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Heighliner: an App Development Platform to Bring Stack-as-Code Experience
Helium3 Tech recently launched Heighliner, an open-source and cloud-native application development platform that enables you to deliver your application stack as code. Developers can abstract complicated infrastructure details into human-readable configuration files that you can implement version control, reuse, and share.
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CNCF Incubating Project Update Focuses on Adoption and Releases at KubeCon EU
As part of the KubeCon EU keynotes, the CNCF provided a series of project updates underlying the notable changes in the ecosystem. The information provided focused on the ongoing initiatives, adoption rate, and notable publications or releases.