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Traefik v3.3 Release: Enhanced Observability and Documentation
TraefikLabs recently announced the latest release of Traefik Proxy v3.3 (codenamed "saint-nectaire” after a French cheese). This release focuses primarily on two critical areas: observability capabilities and improved documentation structure. These enhancements aim to make the popular open-source reverse proxy even more powerful for platform engineers working in complex cloud-native environments.
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Kubernetes Cloud Repatriation Saves Millions for Data Platform Provider
Yellowbrick, an SQL data platform provider, has significantly reduced costs by moving workloads from the public cloud to its own private Kubernetes-based infrastructure. It has reported an annual saving of $3.9 million by moving its development and testing environments away from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
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Agoda Integrates macOS Infrastructure with Kubernetes
Agoda recently detailed how they integrated their macOS infrastructure with Kubernetes. This was accomplished by developing the macOS Virtualization Kubelet (macOS-vz-Kubelet), a tool designed to manage macOS workloads within a Kubernetes environment.
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Kubernetes 1.32 Released with Dynamic Resource Allocation and Graceful Shutdown of Windows Nodes
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released Kubernetes 1.32, named Penelope a few weeks ago. The new release introduced support for the Graceful Shutdown of Windows Nodes, new status endpoints for core components, and asynchronous preemptions in the Kubernetes scheduler.
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Gitpod Flex: Cloud Development After Kubernetes
Gitpod, a cloud development environment platform, recently decided to move away from Kubernetes after six years of use and experimentation. This decision emerged from their experience of managing development environments for 1.5 million users, while handling numerous environments daily.
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024: Yahoo’s Kubernetes Journey On-Prem to Multi-Cloud
At KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America 2024, Nandhakumar Venkatachalam and Payal Patel shared Yahoo's Kubernetes journey from on-premises to multi-cloud at scale, underscoring challenges faced and lessons learned during this transition.
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024: Key Announcements and Projects Updates
Last week, the cloud-native community gathered in Salt Lake City, Utah, for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024. Practitioners, tech leaders, and vendors explored the latest innovations and technologies defining cloud-native computing.
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Podman Desktop 1.13 Launches with Hyper-V Support and Additional Enhancements
Podman Desktop 1.13 introduces key updates, including Hyper-V support for managing Podman machines on Windows, an integrated image search feature, and redesigned empty state pages for containers, images, pods, and Kubernetes. The release also includes a reorganized Kubernetes navigation and an Image Layer Explorer extension.
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No EC2 or Kubernetes Allowed: Insights from Building Serverless-Only Architecture at PostNL
PostNL shared insights and guidance from its transition from outsourced IT project delivery to an in-house product delivery capability. By embracing cloud-native technologies, with an emphasis on serverless services, the company achieved significant gains in productivity and market responsiveness while reducing operational costs.
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Maybe WebAssembly Is the Next Evolutionary Step From Containers: Fermyon at InfoQ DevSummit Munich
During her presentation at the inaugural edition of the InfoQ Dev Summit Munich, Danielle Lancashire, principal software engineer at Fermyon and co-chair of the CNCF wasm-wg, hinted at WebAssembly containers as a greener alternative and a potential evolution from the current containerised approach to serverless computing.
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JFrog Integrates Runtime Security for Enhanced DevSecOps Platform
JFrog has introduced JFrog Runtime to its suite of security capabilities, adding real-time vulnerability detection to its software supply chain platform. This update is aimed at developers and DevSecOps teams working with Kubernetes clusters and cloud-native applications.
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Deezer Optimizes Kubernetes Autoscaling with Custom Metrics
Popular music streaming service Deezer has written about using custom metrics to enable auto-scaling in its Kubernetes infrastructure. Server utilisation and performance issues made scaling applications to an appropriate size and number of replicas challenging, and Kuberenetes' HPA scaling alone didn't solve these issues. So Deezer turned to custom metrics.
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Intuit Engineering's Approach to Simplifying Kubernetes Management with AI
Intuit recently talked about how they managed the complexities of monitoring and debugging Kubernetes clusters using Generative AI (GenAI). The GenAI experiments were conducted to streamline detection, debugging, and remediation processes.
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Feature Gates in Client-Go: Enhancing Control and Simplifying Feature Adoption in Kubernetes
Kubernetes has integrated feature gates into the client-go library, providing developers and administrators with more granular control over feature adoption within their Kubernetes environments. Kubernetes components utilize the client-go library for API interaction. This library is also widely adopted across the Kubernetes ecosystem for building extensions like controllers, tools, and webhooks.
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Kubernetes v1.31 Released: Enhanced Security, Stability, and AI/ML Support
The Kubernetes project has recently announced the release of version 1.31, codenamed "Elli". This version incorporates 45 enhancements, with 11 features reaching Stable status, 22 moving to Beta, and 12 new Alpha features introduced.