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"Docker Application Guides" Demonstrate How to Deploy Enterprise Apps to Swarm and Kubernetes
Docker recently announced Docker Application Guides, which demonstrates how to deploy applications on Docker Enterprise Edition and Docker Desktop, providing architectures and guidance examples for selecting container images and deploying prototype applications, orchestrated by Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.
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Instana Releases Sample Microservice Application
Instana, provider of AI powered monitoring solutions for dynamic containerised microservice applications, announced at QCon New York the release of Stan’s Robot Shop, a sample microservice application that can be used as a sandbox to test and learn about microservice architecture, containerised application orchestration and automatic monitoring techniques.
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Google Releases Knative: A Kubernetes Framework to Build, Deploy, and Manage Serverless Workloads
At Google Cloud Next 2018 the release of Knative was announced as a “Kubernetes-based platform to build, deploy, and manage modern serverless workloads”. The open source framework attempts to codify the best practices around building, serving requests, and eventing. Knative has been developed by Google in close partnership with Pivotal, IBM, Red Hat, and SAP.
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Microsoft Announces the Public Preview of Dev Spaces for AKS
Microsoft announced a public preview of Dev Spaces for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), which provides a rapid, iterative Kubernetes development experience for teams. The release is a follow up after a private preview of Dev Spaces during Build 2018 in May.
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GPUs on Google's Kubernetes Engine Are Now Generally Available
Google announced the general availability of GPUs in their Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Together with the recent GA of 1.10 version of GKE customers can land their machine learning (ML) workloads on to it and leverage the massive processing power of the GPUs.
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Shopify’s Journey to Kubernetes and PaaS: Niko Kurtti at QCon NY
At QCon New York, Niko Kurtti presented “Forced Evolution: Shopify’s Journey to Kubernetes”, and described the Shopify engineering team’s journey to building their own PaaS with Kubernetes as the foundation.
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Q&A with Gabe Monroy of Microsoft on Azure Kubernetes Service from Build 2018
InfoQ caught up with Gabe Monroy, lead program manager for Containers on Azure regarding Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) from the Microsoft //build conference. He goes into more detail about how Microsoft is working with the community, but at the same trying to differentiate the service, by integrating Azure Active Directory (AAD) for instance.
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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Is Now Generally Available - More Regions and New Features
At the end of October last year Microsoft announced a preview of AKS (Azure Container Service), a managed Kubernetes service in Azure. Now almost seven months later this service in Azure is generally available - and it joins a space with many competitive managed kubernetes services by other cloud providers, each offering different functionality and deployment locations.
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Kubernetes Package Manager Helm Now Hosted by the CNCF
Earlier in the month the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Helm as an incubation-level hosted project. Helm is a package manager that provides an “easy way to find, share, and use software built for Kubernetes”.
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AppDynamics Launches New European Software-as-a-Service Offering
Application intelligence vendor, AppDynamics, has launched a new European Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, built on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) EU (Frankfurt) Region.
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AWS Releases Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)
In 2017 at re:Invent, AWS previewed a Kubernetes-based container service. Now six months later, the Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) is generally available. It joins a crowded space of managed Kubernetes cloud services, each offering different functionality and deployment locations.
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Instana Extends AI Application Monitoring to AWS Lambda
Instana, a cloud-native provider of artificial intelligence based monitoring tools for dynamic containerized microservice applications, has extended support to include AWS Lambda, a serverless computing platform and also announced availability through the AWS Marketplace.
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Google Kubernetes Engine 1.10 Is Generally Available and Enterprise Ready
Google has announced the general availability of the 1.10 version of their kubernetes engine. Furthermore, in parallel of the 1.10 release, Google will release several new features to support enterprise use cases with the engine like the Shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Regional Persistent Disks and Regional Clusters, Node Auto-Repair and the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler.
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Atlassian Releases Escalator, an Autoscaling Tool for Kubernetes Nodes
Atlassian released their in-house tool Escalator as an open source project. It provides configuration-driven preemptive scale-up and faster scale-down for Kubernetes nodes.
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Google's Stackdriver Monitoring Announces Better Support for Kubernetes Deployments
At the recently concluded KubeCon, Google announced the beta release of Stackdriver monitoring for Kubernetes. The key features include central visibility of Kubernetes-orchestrated container metrics and logs along with other metrics in the existing Stackdriver dashboard, and better Prometheus support.