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Microsoft Announces Preview of Azure Application Gateway for Containers
Microsoft recently announced the preview of Azure Application Gateway for Containers - a new application (layer 7) load balancing and dynamic traffic management product for workloads running in a Kubernetes cluster. It extends Azure's Application Load Balancing portfolio and is a new offering under the Application Gateway product family.
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Docker Desktop 4.21 Brings Builds Beta, Docker Init and Scout Improvements, and More
Docker has released Docker Desktop 4.21. This version brings Docker Builds beta, support for new wasm runtimes, Docker Init support for Rust, Docker Scout dashboard enhancements, and more.
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Pfizer Uses Serverless Architecture on AWS to Scale Processing of Digital Biomarkers
Pfizer upgraded the serverless architecture for processing digital biomarker data at scale to make it more flexible and configurable. They created a framework that uses a file processing pipeline built with AWS Step Functions and other serverless services, as well as a custom Python package for data ingestion and processing.
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Yelp Rebuilds Corrupted Cassandra Cluster Using Its Data Streaming Architecture
Yelp created a solution to sanitize data from the corrupted Apache Cassandra cluster utilizing its data streaming architecture. The team explored many potential options to address the data corruption issue, however, ultimately had to move the data into a new cluster to remove corrupted records in the process.
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Instacart Creates a Self-Serve Apache Flink Platform on Kubernetes
Instacart moved their Apache Flink workloads from AWS EMR to Kubernetes to meet the high demand for data processing use cases using Flink within the organization, as using EMR became problematic for many teams with different requirements. As a result, they made the platform easier to use and reduced their operational and infrastructure costs.
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Enhanced Testcontainers and Development-Time Containers Support in Spring Boot 3.1
Spring Boot 3.1, the latest version of the popular Java-based framework for building stand-alone, production-grade applications, introduces enhanced support for development-time containers. This new feature was the focus of a recent livestream by Josh Long, a Spring developer advocate, on his YouTube channel "Coffee + Software with Josh Long."
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KSOC Labs Release the First Kubernetes Bill of Materials (KBOMs)
KSOC labs recently announced the release of the first Kubernetes Bill of Materials(KBOMs). KBOM is an open source standard and command-line tool that helps security teams quickly analyze cluster configurations and respond to CVEs. The project includes an initial specification and implementation that works across cloud providers, on-prem, and DIY environments.
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AWS Signer Simplifies Signing and Verifying Container Images
AWS has released AWS Signer Container Image Signing (AWS Signer) to provide native AWS support for signing and verifying container images in registries such as Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). AWS Signer manages code signing certificates, public and private keys, and provides lifecycle management tooling.
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Terraform Adds Support for Azure Linux, Introduces New CI/CD Tool
HashiCorp has released a number of new improvements to Terraform and Terraform Cloud. Within Terraform Cloud, there is a new CI/CD pipeline integration tool. Terraform has added support for Azure Linux container host for Azure Kubernetes Service. The HashiCorp Terraform AWS provider version 5.0 was released with improved support for default tags.
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Canonical Sunbeam Aims to Simplify Migrating from Small-Scale Legacy IT Solutions to OpenStack
Canonical has announced a new open-source project to enable organizations to transition their small-scale proprietary IT solutions to OpenStack. Named Sunbeam, the project is free of charge and does not require an expensive professional services engagement, says Canonical
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CBL-Mariner: Azure Linux Distribution Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Azure Linux container host for AKS. Available on GitHub under the CBL-Mariner project codename, the lightweight Linux distribution includes only the packages needed to run workloads on a cloud environment.
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AWS Announced the Support of Kubernetes Version 1.27 for Amazon EKS
AWS announced the support of Kubernetes version 1.27, called Chill Vibes, for Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro. In this version of Kubernetes there are a lot of new features that are generally available and some of them are potentially destructive for the clusters.
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Google Open Sources Bazel Plugin to Automate Secure Distroless Image Creation
Google and Bazel consulting firm Aspect announced version 1.0 of Bazel plugin rules_oci. Aimed to simplify secure container image creation using Bazel with special emphasis on Distroless images, the new plugin obsoletes rules_docker and improves it on a number of counts.
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Azure Container Storage Now in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Azure Container Storage, a volume management service built natively for containers.
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Huawei Open Sources Kuasar, a Rust-Based Container Runtime
Kuasar, a Rust-based container runtime that supports multiple types of sandboxers, is open-sourced. As a unified container runtime, Kuasar already supports MicroVM sandboxes such as Cloud Hypervisor, StratoVirt, and QEMU, app kernel sandboxes like Quark, and Wasm sandboxes like WasmEdge.