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Kubernetes Java Client 17.0 Provides Support for Kubernetes 1.25
Kubernetes Java Client supports the Kubernetes API and the current release 17.0.0 supports version 1.25 of the Kubernetes API. The client is able to dynamically retrieve information, for example for monitoring purposes, and allows changing and deleting items in the Kubernetes cluster. The Kubernetes client may be used as an alternative for the command line Kubernetes tool: kubectl [argument].
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Kubernetes Report Finds Increase in Poorly Configured Workloads
Fairwinds, a provider of Kubernetes software, has released their Kubernetes Benchmark Report 2023. The report shows an overall trend of worsening configuration issues across the surveyed organizations. This includes increases in organizations running workloads allowing root access, workloads without memory limits set, and workloads impacted by image vulnerabilities.
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Internal Platform Framework Kratix Releases Community Marketplace
Kratix, an open-source framework for building internal platforms, has released a marketplace of community-provided Promises. Within Kratix, Promises represent components curated by the platform team that application teams can request. The Kratix Marketplace is open for submissions from the community.
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Google Kubernetes Engine Adds Multishares for Filestore Enterprise
Google Cloud has moved Filestore Enterprise Multishares for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) into general availability. With Filestore Enterprise Multishares, multiple persistent volumes can be packed onto a Filestore Enterprise instance to improve storage utilization and reduce costs.
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Traefik Hub Enables Simple and Secure Container Publishing
Traefik Labs have announced the general availability of Traefik Hub, a tool designed to allow admins to quickly and securely publish Kubernetes and Docker containers.
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Report Finds Heavy Use of Open-Source Solutions for Kubernetes Security
A recent survey by Armo on the use of security software solutions with Kubernetes found that over half of respondents leverage open-source tooling. Companies using open-source tooling use on average 3.6 different tools. These open-source tools were predominately used for service mesh, network policy and micro-segmentation, and misconfiguration scanning.
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Kubernetes 1.26 Released with Image Registry Changes, Enhanced Resource Allocation, and Metrics
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released Kubernetes 1.26 with the name Electrifying. The release has new features, such as Image Registry Changes, Dynamic Resource Allocation, and Improved Metrics.
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Uber Improves Productivity with Remote Development Environment Devpod
Engineers at Uber created their own remote development environment to improve developer experience and productivity by fixing a number of issues brought about by their adoption of a code monorepo.
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Score Provides a Workflow Centric Approach to Container Workload Management
Score is designed to reduce the complexity and duplication required to run workloads across multiple cloud environments. Score defines workloads in a platform-agnostic fashion via YAML. At the time of release, the Score supports three platforms: Helm, Docker Compose, and Humanitec.
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NVIDIA Kubernetes Device Plug-in Brings Temporal GPU Concurrency
Starting from the v12 release, the Nvidia GPU device plug-in framework started supporting time-sliced sharing between CUDA workloads on Kubernetes. This feature aims to prevent under-utilization of GPU units and make it easier to scale applications by leveraging concurrently-executing CUDA contexts.
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HashiCorp Consul Introduces New Sidecar Model for Kubernetes Deployments
HashiCorp has released Consul 1.14, adding new features that simplify deployments and improve the resiliency of their service mesh platform. The release includes Consul Dataplane, an improved architecture for deploying onto Kubernetes. The cluster peering model that was introduced as beta in 1.13 has been moved into full general availability.
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Triggermesh Introduces an Open-Source AWS Eventbridge Alternative with Project Shaker
Recently TriggerMesh, a cloud-native integration platform provider, announced Shaker, a new open-source AWS EventBridge alternative project that captures, transforms, and delivers events from many out-of-the-box and custom event sources in a unified manner.
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Payara Cloud Automates Jakarta EE Deployments to Kubernetes
Payara introduced Payara Cloud, a serverless solution for Jakarta EE applications, which manages the infrastructure configuration and creation. It allows developers to focus on creating and configuring the application before pushing the application's WAR file to the cloud.
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Kubecost Open Sources OpenCost: an Open Source Standard for Kubernetes Cost Monitoring
Kubecost recently open sourced OpenCost, an open source cost standard for Kubernetes workloads. OpenCost enables teams to operate with a single model for real-time monitoring, measuring, and managing Kubernetes costs across different environments. OpenCost introduces a new specification and an implementation to monitor and manage the costs in Kubernetes environments above 1.8.
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Kubernetes 1.24 Released with Network Policy Status, Contextual Logging, and Subresource Support
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released Kubernetes 1.24 in May by the name Stargazer. The release has new features such as Network Policy Status, Contextual Logging, and signing release artifacts, generally available for stable features such as PodOverhead, CSI volume expansion, and CSR duration.