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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Keynote Summary
The annual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe event ran as a virtual conference in August. Key takeaways included: there is an increasing importance in understanding end-user adoption patterns of technologies; it is important to recognize and discuss the topics of security, observability, and energy efficiency as more organizations move to the cloud; and more.
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Amazon Announces New Command Line Interface Tool AWS Copilot
Recently, Amazon announced a new command-line interface tool called AWS Copilot, which allows customers to develop, release, and operate containerized applications on AWS. With a single command, customers can create all the infrastructure and artifacts necessary to run a service on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and AWS Fargate.
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Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS ECS and Fargate
Docker has announced the public beta of their enhanced integration of Docker with AWS Elastic Container Service and AWS Fargate. The release of the ECS plugin allows for developers to work within the Docker experience to create the necessary infrastructure to operate within AWS.
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Bare-Metal Kubernetes Load Balancer Porter Included in CNCF Landscape
The CNCF has accepted Porter, a load balancer meant for bare-metal Kubernetes clusters, in the CNCF Landscape. Porter uses the Border Gateway Protocol with ECMP to load balance traffic in self-hosted Kubernetes clusters.
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Rancher Labs Discuss the Adoption of Kubernetes "Everywhere"
In a recent podcast, Shannon Williams, co-founder and president at Rancher Labs, and Darren Shepherd, co-founder and CTO at Rancher Labs, sat down with InfoQ and discussed the adoption of hybrid cloud across organisations. Additional topics covered included: the evolution of Kubernetes as a key abstraction for portability and cross-cloud security and running thousands of clusters at the edge.
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Why Coinbase Is Not Using Kubernetes to Run Their Container Workloads
Coinbase recently wrote about why Kubernetes is not part of their technology stack. Coinbase uses containers, but they run them in VMs. For deployments, they use Odin, its open-source solution for deploying their services in VMs as auto-scaling groups. Adopting Kubernetes adds unnecessary complexity to their current deployment pipeline, and it is not the right tool for them at the moment.
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CNCF Accepts Contour, a Kubernetes Ingress Controller, as an Incubating Project
The CNCF Technical Steering Committee (TOC) announced that they have accepted Contour as an incubating project. Contour is an Ingress controller for Kubernetes that uses the Envoy Layer 7 (L7) proxy as a data plane.
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Couchbase Announces the General Availability of Its Cloud Database on AWS
Recently Couchbase announced the general availability of Couchbase Cloud, a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS). The Cloud NoSQL service is currently available on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure and Google will follow by the end of the year.
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Open Source Registry Harbor's Graduation: Q&A with VMware's Michael Michael
InfoQ caught up with Harbor maintainer Michael Michael, also director of product management at VMware, regarding the graduation of Harbor as a CNCF project.
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Krustlet: a kubelet Written in Rust to Run WebAssembly Workloads in Kubernetes
Deis Labs has released Krustlet, an open-source Kubernetes kubelet written in Rust to run web assembly workloads within Kubernetes. Krustlet's initial version is functional to run an essential workload as it doesn't have support for features like pod events or Init Containers yet. Applications must implement the WebAssembly system interface (WASI) as Krustlet only runs WebAssembly containers.
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MayaData Launches Kubernetes Cloud-Native Storage Management Service Kubera
MayaData announced the launch of Kubera - a management service for stateful workloads on Kubernetes that use OpenEBS as a storage layer.
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Rancher Labs Makes Longhorn Generally Available
Creators of Kubernetes management platform Rancher Labs have made Longhorn, a cloud-native block storage solution, generally available. Longhorn provides a vendor-neutral persistent storage solution that supports the development of stateful applications within Kubernetes. Longhorn is open source, distributed block storage built using microservices.
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The Defense Department's Journey with DevSecOps
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has released a new case study of the DoD's approach to DevSecOps that looks at how they used Kubernetes clusters and other open-source technologies to speed up the releases. While most of the information was already available from the DoD and in their presentations, the CNCF has summarized the venture in one place.
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HashiCorp Consul: 1.8 Release and New Kubernetes Tutorials
Closely following the launch of Consul 1.8, the HashiCorp team has released a set of new hands-on tutorials for deploying and using the HashiCorp Consul service mesh capabilities on Kubernetes. The 1.8 launch focuses on enabling gradual adoption of a service mesh across a range of VM and container environments via the use of mesh gateways and ingress and terminating gateways (released in beta).
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Microsoft Announces Public Preview of Azure Arc Enabled Kubernetes at Build 2020
During this year's digital Build event, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes with support for most of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)-certified Kubernetes distributions. With this capability, customers can manage and govern their Kubernetes clusters from Azure across their data centers, multi-cloud configurations, and Azure Stack Hub.