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CircleCI Introduces New Orbs to Simplify Deployment Activities
CircleCI recently announced the availability of Deployment Orbs which focus on streamlining and simplifying the integration of deployment workflows into CircleCI jobs. This release includes orbs for deploying into common environments such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, and Salesforce.
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CRI-O Infrastructure and Application Monitoring Now Supported by Instana
Kubernetes application performance management solution, Instana, has announced support for managing CRI-O Kubernetes run-time containers and the applications that run on that infrastructure.
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Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes Moves into General Availability
Elastic recently moved Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) into GA. Originally announced as an alpha release in May 2019, Elastic is looking to support the growing number of users leveraging Kubernetes for deploying ElasticSearch. This release includes support for many of Elastic's core features and can run on a number of public cloud Kubernetes offerings.
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Q&A on Okteto: a Tool to Develop Applications in Kubernetes
Okteto is an open-source tool that runs locally to synchronize application code changes to a running pod in a local or remote Kubernetes cluster. There's no need to commit, build, and push a container image to start testing an application. Developers can continue using their existing IDE, debuggers, compilers or hot reloaders to test their code changes instantly.
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Falco is the First Runtime Security Project to be Accepted into CNCF Incubator
Falco, a cloud-native runtime security project, was accepted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as an incubation-level hosted project. Falco provides intrusion and abnormality detection for platforms like Kubernetes, Mesosphere, and Cloud Foundry. With the move into the incubation stage, the Falco team has been focusing on making the tool easier to adopt and use.
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HyScale Open Sources App Deployment Tool for Kubernetes
HyScale announced the open sourcing of their tool which aims to simplify the application development lifecycle on Kubernetes. HyScale uses a custom YAML format that employs existing Docker and Kubernetes APIs to build, deploy and expose an app as a service.
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Improving Capacity Management in Kubernetes Clusters: Q&A with Mohamed Ahmed
InfoQ recently spoke with Mohamed Ahmed, the co-founder and CEO of Magalix, a Kubernetes optimization company, to discuss the critical discipline of capacity management across cloud-native infrastructure and applications.
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ServiceMeshCon 2019: Platform Plumbing, Debugging, and Custom Implementations
The inaugural CNCF-hosted ServiceMeshCon 2019 took place during November as part of KubeCon. A core message from the event was that service mesh technology is rapidly becoming part of the platform “plumbing”, and therefore the interesting innovation is happening in relation to the higher-level abstractions and the human-focused control planes.
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Google Publishes Its BeyondProd Cloud-Native Security Model
Google BeyondProd white-paper provides a model for cloud-native security in a containerized world. Google's model requires moving beyond the traditional perimeter-based security model and leverages code-provenance and service identity as security cornerstones. Google also provided a list of open-source software that can be used to implement its security model.
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Datawire Announces the Ambassador Edge Stack Early Access Program
Datawire last week announced the release of the Ambassador Edge Stack 1.0. The Ambassador Edge Stack is an integrated edge solution that empowers developer teams to rapidly configure the edge services required to build, deliver, and scale their applications running in Kubernetes.
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High Availability for Self-Managed Kubernetes Clusters at DT One
The engineering team at DT One, a global provider of mobile top-up and reward solutions, wrote about how they implemented IP failover-based high availability for their self-managed Kubernetes cluster ingress on Hetzner’s hosting platform.
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James Ward and Ray Tsang on Knative Serverless Platform
At this year's QCon San Francisco 2019 Conference, James Ward and Ryan Knight hosted a workshop on Serverless technologies using the Knative framework. InfoQ caught up with speakers to discuss the role of serverless in developing cloud native applications.
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Improved File Sharing in Docker Desktop for Windows Enhances Developer Experience
Docker has released a new fileshare implementation for Docker Desktop for Windows as part of the 2.1.7.0 edge release. This new fileshare makes use of FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) and allows for more seamless sharing of files between host and container. This includes being able to edit source on the host, save, and see the changes live in the browser on the container.
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Gremlin Releases Native Kubernetes Chaos Testing
Chaos engineering platform Gremlin released native Kubernetes support for identifying, targeting, and experimenting on Kubernetes objects in order to proactively identify service weaknesses.
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How Monzo Isolated Their Microservices Using Kubernetes Network Policies
Monzo's security team shared their story about implementing Kubernetes network policies using Calico APIs to provide isolation among 1500 microservices.