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Docker Enterprise Business and Team Move to Mirantis While Docker Gets New Funding
Mirantis, a Cloud consulting company focused on Kubernetes and OpenStack, has acquired Docker Enterprise. While Mirantis will focus on the enterprise segment, the part of Docker which is not being acquired will return to the company's original goal of improving developers' workflows.
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Managing Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Platforms with Microsoft Azure Arc
During Microsoft’s premier event Ignite for IT-professional and decision-makers, the company announced several new hybrid cloud products and services. One of the most significant announcements was Azure Arc, a service in preview that allows enterprises to bring Azure services and management to any infrastructure including AWS and Google Cloud.
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TriggerMesh Announces EveryBridge Serverless Event Bus
Recently TriggerMesh announced EveryBridge, an event bus that can consume events from various sources. These events are then used to start functions, which can run at any of the major cloud providers as well as on-premises.
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Platforms Demystified: Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Eirini, and Knative
Matthias Haeussler and Dr Nic Williams spoke at this year's SpringOne Platform 2019 Conference about different cloud platforms and how they compare in terms of features from a developer perspective.
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Microsoft Announces Open Application Model for Kubernetes and Other Platforms
InfoQ caught up with Vaclav Turecek, principal program manager at Microsoft and one of the spec leads regarding the announcement. Turecek talks about the proliferation of platforms atop Kubernetes and how OAM is aimed at distinguishing the parts that developers and operators are responsible for, respectively.
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Amazon Announces Generally Availability of Windows Containers on EKS
Last week Amazon announced that support of Windows containers on Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now generally available. As such, this allows their users to run Windows and Linux containers side by side in the same EKS environment, thus providing a consistent method of provisioning, monitoring, and logging, no matter what type of container they use to host their applications.
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Ray Tsang on Tools and Best Practices for Kubernetes Adoption
Ray Tsang, developer advocate at Google, spoke at SpringOne Platform 2019 Conference last week about the tools and best practices developers can use in Kubernetes adoption in their organizations.
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GoDaddy Releases Automatic Canary Deployments Tool for Kubernetes
GoDaddy recently released an open-source tool to automate gated deployments in Kubernetes. Every time a deployment happens, the tool can run regression tests, and pull metrics from data backends like New Relic. After some time, the tool decides whether to roll back or continue with the deployment automatically. Users can run A/B tests and run experiments with a small portion of live traffic.
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Distributed SQL Database NuoDB 4.0 Supports Kubernetes Operator and Indexing Improvements
Distributed SQL database NuoDB 4.0 supports Kubernetes Operator and indexing improvements. NuoDB released the latest version of the database that also supports Azure and Google Cloud Platform certification.
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HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure: The First Fully Managed Consul Offering
During the HashiConf keynote, HashiCorp announced HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure. Consequently, customers can now provision HCS natively through the Azure Marketplace directly into their Azure subscription, while HashiCorp takes care of maintenance and operations of the service.
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Helm as a Package Manager for Kubernetes: Q&A with Helm Founder Matt Butcher
InfoQ caught up with Matt Butcher, the organizer for the Helm Summit in Amsterdam, and explored Helm's growth and its roadmap. He talked about the history of Helm, how its design was influenced by other package managers, how it's helping the Kubernetes community, its tremendous growth, and some of the security challenges being resolved.
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Google Releases Cloud Dataproc for Kubernetes in Alpha
Google Cloud Dataproc is an open-source data and analytic processing service based on Hadoop and Spark. Google has recently announced the alpha availability of Cloud Dataproc for Kubernetes, which provides customers with a more efficient method to process data across platforms.
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Introducing Maesh: A Service Mesh for Kubernetes
On September 4th, 2019, Containous, a cloud infrastructure software provider, released Maesh, an open-source service mesh written in Golang and built on top of the reverse proxy and load balancer Traefik. Maesh promises to provide a lightweight service mesh solution that is easy to get started with and to roll out across a microservice application.
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Pinterest’s Journey to a Kubernetes Platform
Pinterest software engineers have revealed the custom tools and resources they introduced in the company's adoption of Kubernetes.
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Amazon Releases Container Monitoring for Amazon ECS, EKS, and Kubernetes via CloudWatch
Recently, Amazon announced that customers can now monitor, isolate, and diagnose their containerized applications and microservices environments using Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights. Cloud Insights is a part of Amazon CloudWatch, a fully-managed monitoring and observability service in AWS targeted for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers.