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Grafana Labs Announces GA of Cortex v1.0 and Discusses Architectural Changes
Grafana Labs, the company behind popular open-source monitoring projects Grafana and Loki, announced the General Availability of Cortex v1.0. Cortex is a clustered Prometheus implementation that includes features such as horizontal scalability, multi-tenancy, durability, and long-term storage.
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Spectro Cloud Launches a Kubernetes-Based Hybrid Cloud Platform
Spectro Cloud, an enterprise cloud-native infrastructure company, launched a platform for managing multiple distributions of Kubernetes. The platform bearing the company name gives customers fine-grained control, flexibility and multi-cloud capabilities for their Kubernetes stack, including the ease of use and scalability of a managed SaaS platform.
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Reimagining CI/CD Pipelines as Composable Blocks with Bryan Liles
Bryan Liles, senior staff engineer at VMWare, talked at the DeliveryConf about ideas of patterns and recommendations when building CI/CD pipelines. Liles recommends thinking about CI/CD as patterns instead of implementations, like merely using Jenkins or Spinnaker. It should be possible to build a platform with composable blocks with replaceable components and agnostic to a technology stack.
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Google Announces Cloud AI Platform Pipelines to Simplify Machine Learning Development
In a recent blog post, Google announced the beta of Cloud AI Platform Pipelines, which provides users with a way to deploy robust, repeatable machine learning pipelines along with monitoring, auditing, version tracking, and reproducibility.
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OVHcloud's Harbor Kubernetes Operator Becomes Part of CNCF’s goharbor Project
OVHcloud released their Kubernetes operator for the Harbor container registry as open source under the CNCF's goharbor project.
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Amazon Introduces Bottlerocket, a Linux-Based OS for Container Hosting
Recently, Amazon announced a new Linux-based open-source operating system (OS) called Bottlerocket, which is purpose-built to run containers. Bottlerocket is currently in public preview as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for customers to try out.
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Platform9 Announce Free SaaS-Managed Kubernetes Solution
Platform9, a SaaS-managed hybrid cloud platform, has announced a free managed Kubernetes service for hybrid environments with automated Day2 operations including one-click upgrades, security patching, and monitoring. The new free tier enables users to take advantage of a SaaS management plane for Kubernetes on hybrid environments.
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Application Manager Brings GitOps to Google Kubernetes Engine
Google has launched Kubernetes Application Manager, intending to simplify application configuration and lifecycle management. It’s an application delivery solution delivered as an add-on to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), which is also part of Anthos. Kubernetes is widely used for managing containerised applications, but end-to-end Kubernetes lifecycle management can be challenging.
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Istio 1.5: Consolidated "Istiod" Control Plane Binary and New Wasm-Based Extension Model
Istio 1.5 has introduced the Istiod binary to simplify Istio's architecture and improve operational experience. It has become simpler to install and run Istio since the control plane components have been consolidated into a single binary, Istiod. Istio has introduced a new extension model for proxy servers and improved usability, security, telemetry and traffic control.
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How Team Interactions Help Kubernetes Adoption with Manuel Pais at QCon London
Manuel Pais talked at QCon London about how team interactions are vital to reduce cognitive load to have a successful adoption of Kubernetes. Pais recommends having a digital platform on top of Kubernetes. And, organizations can get started by assessing the team's cognitive load, defining a digital platform, and setting clear team interactions.
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Kubernetes Usage Expanding in Large and Small Companies, CNCF Survey Shows
Survey results from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) revealed accelerating adoption of Kubernetes and containers, especially in production environments. This echoed the findings from the new, enterprise-focused, State of Kubernetes 2020 report from VMware.
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What Comes after Microservices? Multi-Runtime Microservices with Bilgin Ibryam at QCon London
Bilgin Ibryam talked at QCon London about the evolution of distributed systems on Kubernetes and the future architecture trends. Ibryam said that the next trend would be to decouple infrastructure concerns from microservices. Ibryam calls this multi-runtime microservices, a service with business logic along with a sidecar in charge of state management, networking, binding, and lifecycle.
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Managing Multi-Cloud Production Kubernetes Clusters at Brandwatch
Brandwatch's engineering team wrote about their experience with managing multi-cluster Kubernetes across EKS, GKE and self-managed clusters.
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Splice Machine Data Platform 3.0 Supports Kubernetes Managed Service and New ML Manager
The latest version of distributed SQL data platform Splice Machine supports a new Kubernetes managed service, new version of Machine Learning Manager (v2.0), and automatic in-database model deployment.
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Spotify Open-Sources Terraform Module for Kubeflow ML Pipelines
Spotify has open-sourced their Terraform module for running machine-learning pipeline software Kubeflow on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). By switching their in-house ML platform to Kubeflow, Spotify engineers have achieved faster time to production and are producing 7x more experiments than on the previous platform.