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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.
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Istio 1.5: Lin Sun and Neeraj Poddar Discuss istiod, Wasm, and Multi-Cluster Support
In a recent InfoQ podcast, Lin Sun and Neeraj Poddar discussed the release of Istio 1.5 and explored the future of service mesh space. Topics covered included the motivations for migrating to the “istiod” monolithic control plane, the addition of WebAssembly data plane (Envoy proxy) extension support, and the future of multi-cluster support within Istio.
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Dekorate: Generating Kubernetes and OpenShift Manifests for Java Projects
Dekorate, formerly the ap4k project which stood for Annotation Processors for Kubernetes, is designed to make the generation of Kubernetes and OpenShift manifests in Java based projects easier. The project was rebranded since it now supports decorating Kubernetes manifests without the use of annotations, so the name ap4k no longer describes the project accurately.
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Microsoft Updates Azure Stack Hub with New Management Features, Container Support and More
During this year's digital Build conference, Microsoft announced several new incremental updates to its private and hybrid computing offering Azure Stack Hub. The public cloud vendor will add various significant features on Azure Stack Hub in private previews such as an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Resource Provider, and Fleet Management.
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Ambassador Edge Stack Seeks Shortening of the Inner Development Loop
Datawire, provider of Kubernetes-native API gateway, Ambassador, has released a new version of Ambassador Edge Stack designed to accelerate the inner development loop. The new Service Preview capability uses Layer 7 (L7) control to allow multiple developers to code locally and preview changes as if the changes were part of the live cluster.
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Docker Q&A on the New Compose Specification Community
Docker released a community for developing the Compose specification to help developers build cloud-native applications using compose. There've been different implementations of Docker compose to make it work in platforms like Kubernetes or AWS ECS. But Docker wants to work with the community to provide better support and define the future of Compose.
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Scaleway Launches Kubernetes Kapsule
Bare-metal cloud solutions provider, Scaleway, has released Kubernetes Kapsule, its containerized application orchestration solution based on the Kubernetes platform and certified by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The Kubernetes Kapsule service is designed to give IT organizations inside and out of France access to a bare-metal instance of Kubernetes.
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Q&A on Container Scaling with Fargate
Vlad Ionescu, an AWS Container Hero, in early April reported on his experiments with scaling Amazon Fargate for batch processing or background jobs.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Windows Server Containers, and More for AKS
Almost a year ago, Microsoft launched a preview of Windows Server Containers in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Now the company announced the general availability of Windows Server containers in AKS, including the support of private clusters and managed identities.
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Splunk Launches New Release of SignalFx APM
Splunk, a platform for searching, monitoring, and examining machine-generated big data, has launched a new release of application monitoring tool SignalFx Microservices APM™. The new release combines NoSample™ tracing, open standards based instrumentation and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven directed troubleshooting from SignalFx and Omnition into a single solution.