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AI Lab Extension Allows Podman Desktop Users to Experiment with LLMs Locally
One year after its 1.0 release, Podman Desktop announced the Podman AI Lab plugin promising to help developers start working with Large Language Models on their machines. Podman AI Lab streamlines LLM workflows featuring generative AI exploration, built-in recipe catalogue, curated models, local model serving, OpenAI-compatible API, code snippets, and playground environments.
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Slack Optimizes Internal Development and Cost Efficiency with EKS and Karpenter
Slack has recently disclosed the architecture of its internal compute orchestration platform, epitomized by "Bedrock”, based on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Karpenter.
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Terraform 1.8 Adds Provider-Defined Functions, Improves AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes Providers
HashiCorp has released version 1.8 of Terraform, their infrastructure-as-code language. The release introduces provider-defined functions. This enables the creation of custom functions within a given provider that handle computational-style tasks. Several providers have introduced new provider-defined functions. Version 1.8 also introduces improvements to refactoring across resource types.
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What's New in Red Hat OpenShift Q1 2024 Enhancements
RedHat has announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift 4.15, based on Kubernetes 1.28 and CRI-O 1.28. Red Hat OpenShift is an application platform that allows developers and DevOps to build, and deploy applications.
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Radius is Now a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox Project
The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team recently announced the approval of Radius as a Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project. Radius is a cloud-native, cloud-agnostic application platform that the CNCF has recognized as having the potential to contribute to the cloud-native ecosystem.
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Expedia Open-Sources Container-Startup-Autoscaler (CSA) for Scaling Kubernetes Workloads
Expedia's Performance and Reliability team has recently open-sourced its container-startup-autoscaler (CSA). It is a Kubernetes controller leveraging the In-Place Update of Pod Resources feature to dynamically adjust CPU and/or memory resources of containers during startup based on user-defined startup/post-startup configurations.
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Building SaaS from Scratch Using Cloud-Native Patterns: a Deep Dive into a Cloud Startup
Joni Collinge, Diagrid's founding software engineer, presented at QCon London and discussed a case study on the evolutionary design and implementation of the Diagrid Cloud platform, which underpins Diagrid’s SaaS offerings.
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KubeCon EU: Mercedes-Benz’s Migration From Pod Security Policies to Validation Admission Policies
During KubeCon EU the Mercedes Benz team presented their migration journey from Pod Security Policies to Validation Admission Policies to secure their 1000+ Kubernetes clusters. The solution was chosen in favour of Kyverno due to its improved performance.
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QCon London: Lessons Learned from Building LinkedIn’s AI/ML Data Platform
At the QCon London 2024 conference, Félix GV from LinkedIn discussed the AI/ML platform powering the company’s products. He specifically delved into Venice DB, the NoSQL data store used for feature persistence. The presenter shared the lessons learned from evolving and operating the platform, including cluster management and library versioning.
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Microsoft Azure Introduces Retina: a Cloud Native Container Networking Observability Platform
The Microsoft Azure Container Networking team recently announced an open-source project named Retina. This cloud-native container networking observability platform allows DevOps engineers and administrators to visualize, debug, and analyze workload traffic across diverse environments.
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KubeCon EU Keynotes: a Call to Action to Innovate Responsibly with Generative AI
The KubeCon EU morning keynotes were a veritable call to action encouraging the cloud-native community's involvement in building the scalable infrastructure needed by generative AI. This call was balanced with encouragement to make a cloud-native platform’s “golden path” green and sustainable, ensuring that any innovation is also responsible.
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Kubecost Launches Version 2.0 with Network Monitoring
Kubecost, a Kubernetes cost monitoring and management solution, recently announced the launch of Kubecost 2.0, a major upgrade that brings many new features to help organizations better monitor, manage, and optimize their Kubernetes-related cloud expenses. Some of the new features include advanced network monitoring and improved cost forecasting powered by machine learning
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KubeCon EU Highlights: CloudEvents & Falco Graduate, Beta Tetragon , Linkerd Meshes Legacy Systems
As highlighted at the recent KubeCon and CNCF EU conference, the count of CNCF graduated projects has reached twenty-six, as Cloud Events and Falco joined the “boring, but safe project list”. Linkerd added mesh extended capabilities for legacy systems; in this way, you can extend the governance and security policies of your mesh. The Beta version of Cilium Tetragon is deployed by early adopters.
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HashiCorp Released Version 2.3 of Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes
Hashicorp recently released the version 2.3 of Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes with a new feature: the ability to initiate workspace runs declaratively. The Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes was introduced in November 2023 with the goal to provide a Kubernetes-native experience while leveraging Terraform workflows
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KubeCon EU: Backstage, Crossplane and Others Preparing for CNCF Graduation
More projects from the CNCF incubated level are preparing to graduate for an ever-widening cloud native ecosystem. The Backstage community has worked on a more robust architecture, and Crossplane aimed to improve its developer DX. KubeFlow and Volcano, both tools promising to improve AI adoption within the Kubernetes ecosystem, are working on easier installation and more features, respectively.