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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.
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KubeCon NA 2022: How to Build an End-to-End Argo-Based DevOps Platform for Kubernetes
Argo, a CNCF project, helps engineers to use Kubernetes by covering many use cases from GitOps-based continuous deployment to event-based workflow automation. It can also be used to create an end-to-end DevOps platform. Alexander Matyushentsev and Leonardo Luz Almeida spoke at the KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Conference on how to build an Argo-based DevOps platform for Kubernetes.
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AWS Adds Container Lens to Well-Architected Framework
AWS has added a new container lens to its Well-Architected Framework. This new technical paper outlines best practices sourced from the community, AWS partners, and AWS's internal container technology specialists. These best practices provide guidance for running high-performance, reliable, and secure container workloads. The paper also includes reference architectures for a few common use cases.
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Threat-Detection Tool Falco Now Supports Multiple Event Sources, Syscall Selection, and More
The latest release of Falco adds the ability to handle multiple simultaneous event sources within the same instance, support for selecting which syscalls to capture, a new Kernel Crawler to collect the most recent supported kernel versions, and more.
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KubeCon NA 2022: Seán McCord on Kubernetes Storage Technologies
Kubernetes platform offers a variety of storage systems and which option you choose depends on storage characteristics like scalability, performance, and cost. Seán McCord from Sidero Labs spoke on Wednesday at KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Conference about the tools the teams can use to evaluate when to use which storage solution.
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Waypoint Now Available in Beta on HashiCorp’s Cloud Platform
Waypoint now available in beta on Hashicorp's Cloud Platform (HCP). First released two years ago as an open-source project, Waypoint is a tool to give developers a consistent deployment experience onto platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes and Amazon ECS. A wide array of plugins provide backend support for deploying to these platforms with a single "waypoint up" command.
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Komodor's Dashboard Brings Improved Debugging to Helm
Komodor's dashboard brings improved debugging to Helm. Helm Dashboard allows developers to quickly understand the status of Helm releases, with an intuitive interface showing the health of both the releases and the Kubernetes resources. The Dashboard provides visibility of common issues such as image version errors, resource limit problems and misconfiguration of secrets.
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Comprehensive Kubernetes Telemetry with AWS Observability Accelerator
AWS recently created a new template within the AWS Observability Accelerator project that provides an integrated telemetry solution for Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) workloads.
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Google Distroless Images Achieve SLSA Level 2
Google announced that their distroless builds meet level 2 of the Supply chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA). Level 2 requires that the build process for these images is tamper resistant. This improves on their previous release which saw all images being signed with cosign.
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Undistro Wolfi Designed to Mitigate Software Supply Chain Risk
Chainguard has announced the general availability of Wolfi, a new Linux distribution designed for container environments and built to ensure a secure software supply chain. Wolfi is designed to be a minimal distribution that provides a build-time SBOM for all included packages.