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Microsoft Announces 1.0 Release of Kubernetes-Based Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA)
Microsoft has announced the 1.0 version of the Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaling (KEDA) component, an open-source project that can run in a Kubernetes cluster to provide "fine grained autoscaling (including to/from zero)" for every container. KEDA also serves as a Kubernetes Metrics Server and allows users to define autoscaling rules using a dedicated Kubernetes custom resource.
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Q&A with Matt Fisher of Microsoft about Helm 3.0 Release for Kubernetes
Matt Fisher talks about the features of Helm 3.0, which is a major release, including why and how they overcame some technical debt, primarily related to tiller.
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Google Announces General Availability of Skaffold for Easing Kubernetes Development
Google announced the general availability of Skaffold, a tool that simplifies common tasks when developing and deploying to Kubernetes. Skaffold can auto-detect and deploy changes automatically in development mode, and build, test and deploy changes in deployment mode. Skaffold supports multiple tools in the various stages of its pipeline.
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Fully-Managed Serverless Platform Google Cloud Run is Now GA
Google Cloud Run is Google's fully managed solution for running containerized, serverless applications. After a six-month beta phase, Cloud Run is now generally available, along with Cloud Run for Anthos, which enables running your Google Cloud Run application on premises using a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster.
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Docker Enterprise Business and Team Move to Mirantis While Docker Gets New Funding
Mirantis, a Cloud consulting company focused on Kubernetes and OpenStack, has acquired Docker Enterprise. While Mirantis will focus on the enterprise segment, the part of Docker which is not being acquired will return to the company's original goal of improving developers' workflows.
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Automated Testing for Terraform, Docker, Packer, Kubernetes, and More: Yevgeniy Brikman at QCon SF
At QCon SF, Yevgeniy Brikman presented "Automated Testing for Terraform, Docker, Packer, Kubernetes, and More". Key takeaways from the talk included the recommendation to use an appropriate mix of all testing techniques discussed, such as static analysis, unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests.
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Managing Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Platforms with Microsoft Azure Arc
During Microsoft’s premier event Ignite for IT-professional and decision-makers, the company announced several new hybrid cloud products and services. One of the most significant announcements was Azure Arc, a service in preview that allows enterprises to bring Azure services and management to any infrastructure including AWS and Google Cloud.
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TriggerMesh Announces EveryBridge Serverless Event Bus
Recently TriggerMesh announced EveryBridge, an event bus that can consume events from various sources. These events are then used to start functions, which can run at any of the major cloud providers as well as on-premises.
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Platforms Demystified: Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Eirini, and Knative
Matthias Haeussler and Dr Nic Williams spoke at this year's SpringOne Platform 2019 Conference about different cloud platforms and how they compare in terms of features from a developer perspective.
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Microsoft Announces Open Application Model for Kubernetes and Other Platforms
InfoQ caught up with Vaclav Turecek, principal program manager at Microsoft and one of the spec leads regarding the announcement. Turecek talks about the proliferation of platforms atop Kubernetes and how OAM is aimed at distinguishing the parts that developers and operators are responsible for, respectively.
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Amazon Announces Generally Availability of Windows Containers on EKS
Last week Amazon announced that support of Windows containers on Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now generally available. As such, this allows their users to run Windows and Linux containers side by side in the same EKS environment, thus providing a consistent method of provisioning, monitoring, and logging, no matter what type of container they use to host their applications.
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Plaid.com Cuts Their Deployment Times on Amazon ECS with Custom Process Relaunching
Plaid's engineering team cut their deployment times on AWS ECS by 95% with a custom wrapper to relaunch their node.js processes without recreating the containers.
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Ray Tsang on Tools and Best Practices for Kubernetes Adoption
Ray Tsang, developer advocate at Google, spoke at SpringOne Platform 2019 Conference last week about the tools and best practices developers can use in Kubernetes adoption in their organizations.
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GoDaddy Releases Automatic Canary Deployments Tool for Kubernetes
GoDaddy recently released an open-source tool to automate gated deployments in Kubernetes. Every time a deployment happens, the tool can run regression tests, and pull metrics from data backends like New Relic. After some time, the tool decides whether to roll back or continue with the deployment automatically. Users can run A/B tests and run experiments with a small portion of live traffic.
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Distributed SQL Database NuoDB 4.0 Supports Kubernetes Operator and Indexing Improvements
Distributed SQL database NuoDB 4.0 supports Kubernetes Operator and indexing improvements. NuoDB released the latest version of the database that also supports Azure and Google Cloud Platform certification.