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CNCF Graduated Project Update Focuses on Landscape Diversity and Maturity at KubeCon EU
The CNCF’s charter defines its mission “is to make cloud-native computing ubiquitous”. Their supported technologies aim to allow organizations to build public, private, or on-premise clouds based on loosely coupled systems that are resilient, manageable, and observable. During KubeCon EU, the CNCF provided a status update of the graduated projects.
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Amazon EKS Blueprints Streamline Bootstrapping Kubernetes Clusters
AWS has released EKS Blueprints, a collection of infrastructure as code (IaC) modules to simplify configuring and deploying EKS clusters. EKS Blueprints are currently implemented in both HashiCorp Terraform and AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). The blueprints have support for a number of open-source add-ons including Prometheus, Nginx, and Argo CD.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Container Apps at Build 2022
Last year at Ignite, Microsoft announced a cloud-native offering with Azure Container Apps, allowing developers to build microservice architectures using containers in preview. The company now announced the general availability of the service at the yearly Build conference.
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Mammoths Stumping in the Cloud Era: Meeting EU Regulations by Being Cloud Native and Cloud Agnostic
Financial institutions are famous for their conservative approach in multiple areas, technology being no exception. Many of them are still running mainframe solutions built a long time ago. But together with times, the banks are changing too: at KubeConEU mBank, a polish bank showed how it managed to marry Cloud Native and Cloud Agnotisc principles to also satisfy the EU regulation in the field.
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How to Prepare for the Unexpected: an InfluxData Outage Story Told at KubeCon EU 22
Cloud applications promise high availability and accessibility to its users, but for that to be achieved a disaster recovery plan is essential. The team behind InfluxDB shared at KubeConEU22 their lessons learned from battle testing their disaster recovery strategy on the day when they deleted the production.
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Wave: a Case Study for Low Architectural Complexity
Dan Luu published an article presenting Wave as a case study for a business model where a simple and boring architecture fits best. Instead of a state-of-the-art service-based asynchronous architecture, they employ a synchronous monolith backed by a database and serving a unified API.
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Docker Launches Docker Extensions and Docker Desktop for Linux
At DockerCon 2022, Docker announced a way for developers to tap into Docker Desktop and extend its functionality using a new Extension SDK. Additionally, Docker Desktop is finally landing on Linux, providing the same experience available on macOS and Windows.
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Integrating Continuous Load Testing into Slack Pipeline
Slack has been working on making load testing a core concern for all engineers, not only those focusing on performance, and moving from a reactive approach to performance to a more integrated effort, say Slack engineers Shreya Ramesh and Melissa Khuat.
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Amazon EKS Announces Support for Kubernetes 1.22
The Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) team announced support for Kubernetes 1.22. This Kubernetes version - released in August 2021 - comes with stable credential plugins, server-side apply, Windows related enhancements and security features in the Kubernetes control plane.
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Dockerfile Linter Hadolint Brings Fixes and Improvements, and Support for ARM64 Binaries
After a long wait, recent Hadolint releases have brought a number of fixes, improvements, and support for ARM64 binaries.
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New Vulnerability in CRI-O Container Runtime Allows Attackers Host Access
A new vulnerability in the CRI-O container runtime used by many Kubernetes installations allows a malicious user to gain root access to the host. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers from CrowdStrike and fixed soon after by the CRI-O project.
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Docker Desktop 4.6 for Mac Boosts Sharing Performance
Docker Desktop 4.6 for Mac introduces a number of changes that speed up file syncing between the macOS host and Docker VM. According to Docker, the new version may reduce the time taken by file syncing by up to 98%.
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ValidKube Aims to Help Enforce Kubernetes YAML Best Practices
ValidKube is a new open-source tool that combines several tools to make it easier to validate, clean, and secure Kubernetes YAML configuration files. InfoQ has spoken with Itiel Shwartz, CTO and co-founder of Komodor, creator of ValidKube.
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KubeVela Announces 1.2: Application-Centric Multi-Cluster Control Plane with Extensible Engine
KubeVela is a modern application delivery platform that makes shipping applications across hybrid, multi-cloud environments easier and faster. The OAM community released version 1.2 of the KubeVela project in Jan 2022, bringing a new GUI framework VelaX, unified multi-cluster management capabilities, and an extensible design with an addon ecosystem.
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Report Finds 75% of Cloud Runtimes Contain High or Critical Vulnerabilities
Sysdig’s latest cloud-native and security-usage report finds that shipping containers with vulnerabilities has become standard practice - with the report finding that 75% of containers have high severity vulnerabilities which could have been patched. The report stresses that many organisations find this to be an acceptable risk, in order to move and release quickly.