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How Jetstack Set Up a Global Load Balancer for Multiple Kubernetes Clusters
Jetstack's engineering team talked about setting up a global load balancer across multiple Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters while utilizing Google’s non-standard container-native load balancing with Google Cloud Armor for DDoS protection.
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VMware Details its Tanzu/Kubernetes Strategy after Pivotal Merger
After acquiring Pivotal at the end of last year, VMware has detailed in a Webinar how it will go about fulfilling its strategy aimed to help customers build their apps, run them using Kubernetes, and manage them from a single control plane.
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CNCF Fund a Bug Bounty Program for Kubernetes
The Kubernetes Product Security Committee has launched a new bug bounty program, funded by the The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), to reward security researchers for finding vulnerabilities in the Kubernetes' codebase, as well as the build and release processes, with bounties ranging from $100 to $10,000.
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WKSctl: a Tool for Kubernetes Cluster Management Using GitOps
WKSctl is an open-source project to install, bootstrap, and manage Kubernetes clusters, including add-ons, through SSH. WKSctl is a provider of the Cluster API (CAPI) using the GitOps approach. Kubernetes cluster configuration is defined in YAML, and WKSctl applies the updates after every push in Git, allowing users to have repeatable clusters on-demand.
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New Google Cloud Config Connector Treats Cloud Services Like Kubernetes Resources
The Google Cloud team have made the Google Cloud Config Connector generally available. Once installed into a Kubernetes cluster, it allows users to configures services, such as databases and virtual machines, as if they were native Kubernetes resources.
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CircleCI Introduces New Orbs to Simplify Deployment Activities
CircleCI recently announced the availability of Deployment Orbs which focus on streamlining and simplifying the integration of deployment workflows into CircleCI jobs. This release includes orbs for deploying into common environments such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, and Salesforce.
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CRI-O Infrastructure and Application Monitoring Now Supported by Instana
Kubernetes application performance management solution, Instana, has announced support for managing CRI-O Kubernetes run-time containers and the applications that run on that infrastructure.
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Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes Moves into General Availability
Elastic recently moved Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) into GA. Originally announced as an alpha release in May 2019, Elastic is looking to support the growing number of users leveraging Kubernetes for deploying ElasticSearch. This release includes support for many of Elastic's core features and can run on a number of public cloud Kubernetes offerings.
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Q&A on Okteto: a Tool to Develop Applications in Kubernetes
Okteto is an open-source tool that runs locally to synchronize application code changes to a running pod in a local or remote Kubernetes cluster. There's no need to commit, build, and push a container image to start testing an application. Developers can continue using their existing IDE, debuggers, compilers or hot reloaders to test their code changes instantly.
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Falco is the First Runtime Security Project to be Accepted into CNCF Incubator
Falco, a cloud-native runtime security project, was accepted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as an incubation-level hosted project. Falco provides intrusion and abnormality detection for platforms like Kubernetes, Mesosphere, and Cloud Foundry. With the move into the incubation stage, the Falco team has been focusing on making the tool easier to adopt and use.
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HyScale Open Sources App Deployment Tool for Kubernetes
HyScale announced the open sourcing of their tool which aims to simplify the application development lifecycle on Kubernetes. HyScale uses a custom YAML format that employs existing Docker and Kubernetes APIs to build, deploy and expose an app as a service.
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Improving Capacity Management in Kubernetes Clusters: Q&A with Mohamed Ahmed
InfoQ recently spoke with Mohamed Ahmed, the co-founder and CEO of Magalix, a Kubernetes optimization company, to discuss the critical discipline of capacity management across cloud-native infrastructure and applications.
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ServiceMeshCon 2019: Platform Plumbing, Debugging, and Custom Implementations
The inaugural CNCF-hosted ServiceMeshCon 2019 took place during November as part of KubeCon. A core message from the event was that service mesh technology is rapidly becoming part of the platform “plumbing”, and therefore the interesting innovation is happening in relation to the higher-level abstractions and the human-focused control planes.
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Google Publishes Its BeyondProd Cloud-Native Security Model
Google BeyondProd white-paper provides a model for cloud-native security in a containerized world. Google's model requires moving beyond the traditional perimeter-based security model and leverages code-provenance and service identity as security cornerstones. Google also provided a list of open-source software that can be used to implement its security model.
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Datawire Announces the Ambassador Edge Stack Early Access Program
Datawire last week announced the release of the Ambassador Edge Stack 1.0. The Ambassador Edge Stack is an integrated edge solution that empowers developer teams to rapidly configure the edge services required to build, deliver, and scale their applications running in Kubernetes.