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AI, Orchestration, Native Network and K8sGPT: KubeCon EU Highlights New CNCF Sandbox Projects
As highlighted at the recent KubeCon EU 2024 conference, several new projects joined the CNCF sandbox in December across a range of categories: kube-burner in CI/CD, Kuasar in the container runtime, K8sgpt in the observability, KRKN in chaos engineering, easegress in API Gateway, spider pool in Cloud-native network and kubestellar in Scheduling and Orchestration.
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CNCF Incubates Strimzi to Simplify Kafka on Kubernetes
The Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has approved Strimzi as an incubating project to streamline the deployment of Apache Kafka on Kubernetes. Strimzi provides a Kubernetes-native way to interact with Kafka through a set of operators that extend the Kubernetes API making it easier to configure, deploy, and operate Kafka on Kubernetes.
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Oracle Announces Oracle Cloud Native 1.8, Supports ARM and Kubernetes 1.28
The Oracle Linux team recently announced the release of Oracle Cloud Native Environment 1.8, a scalable Kubernetes distribution designed for deploying containerized applications in both public cloud environments and on-premise setups. This release includes Kubernetes 1.28 and introduces support for the latest Oracle Linux 8 and Oracle Linux 9 releases on x86_64 and aarch64 architectures.
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Falco, Cloud-Native Security Tool for Kubernetes, Graduates from CNCF
CNCF announced the graduation of Falco, a tool designed for Linux systems and a de facto Kubernetes threat-detection engine. The project successfully met all graduation requirements, including undergoing the due diligence process, completing a third-party security audit, and obtaining the software licensing approvals.
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Glasskube an Emerging Kubernetes Package Management System
The cloud-native landscape is thriving, but a crucial aspect remains missing: a robust package management system. Glasskube, an open-source emerging project in this domain, with its first release (v0.0.1) wants to close this gap.
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CNCF Survey: Half of Organizations Spend More with Kubernetes, Mostly Due to Overprovisioning
CNCF published the results of its latest microsurvey report on cloud-native FinOps and cloud financial management (CFM). Kubernetes has driven cloud spending up for 49% of respondents, while 28% stated their costs remain unchanged and 24% saved after migrating to Kubernetes. Respondents listed overprovisioning, lack of awareness and responsibility, and sprawl as the main factors for overspending.
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Grab Improves Kafka on Kubernetes Fault Tolerance with Strimzi, AWS AddOns and EBS
Grab updated its Kafka on Kubernetes setup to improve fault tolerance and completely eliminate human intervention in case of unexpected Kafka broker terminations. To address the shortcomings of the initial design, the team integrated with AWS Node Termination Handler (NTH), used the Load Balancer Controller for target group mapping, and switched to ELB volumes for storage.
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Docker Build Cloud: Using Cloud Compute and Cache to Decrease Image Build Times
Docker recently announced the general availability of their cloud-based Container Image builder, Docker Build Cloud. Docker Build Cloud offers a remote shared-cache and native builders for AMD64 and ARM64 CPU architectures.
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TikTok Owner Open-Sources Next Gen Kubernetes Federation Tool
ByteDance, the company behind popular global platforms like TikTok, has unveiled KubeAdmiral, its next-generation cluster federation system for Kubernetes, designed to manage multiple clusters with the efficiency and effectiveness comparable to a seasoned navy admiral commanding a fleet. KubeAdmiral scales to run more than 10 million pods across dozens of federated Kubernetes clusters.
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ScaleOps Automates Rightsizing to Reduce Kubernetes Costs
ScaleOps, a startup working in the cloud resource management sector, has unveiled a fully-automated cloud-native cost saving platform. ScaleOps claims to slash cloud costs by up to 80%, with a fully-automated platform that continuously optimizes and manages cloud-native resources during runtime.
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Kubernetes 1.29 Released with KMS V2 Improvements and nftables Support
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released Kubernetes 1.29 named Mandala last month. The latest release introduces new features such as load balancer IP mode for services, mutable pod resources for Windows containers, and nftables for the kube-proxy.
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Hugging Face and Google Cloud Announce Collaboration
Hugging Face and Google Cloud have announced a strategic alliance to advance machine learning and open AI research. Google Cloud customers, Hugging Face Hub users, and open source are the three main focuses of the strategic partnership. Google wants to make cutting-edge AI discoveries available through Hugging Face's open-source frameworks.
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DoorDash Uses Service Mesh and Cell-Based Architecture to Significantly Reduce Data Transfer Costs
In a recent move, DoorDash has significantly optimized its cloud infrastructure costs. The company faced increased cross-AZ data transfer costs when transitioning to a microservices architecture. To substantially reduce this cost, DoorDash implemented zone-aware routing with its Envoy-based service mesh, taking advantage of its Cell-Based Architecture.
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Griffin 2.0: Instacart Revamps Its Machine Learning Platform
Instacart created the next-generation platform based on experiences using the original Griffin machine-learning platform. The company wanted to improve user experience and help manage all ML workloads. The revamped platform leverages the latest developments in MLOps and introduces new capabilities for current and future applications.
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Expedia Uses WebSockets and Kafka to Query Near Real-Time Streaming Data
Expedia created a solution to support querying the clickstream data from their platform in near-real time to enable their product and engineering teams to explore live data while working on new and enhancing existing data-driven functional use cases. The team used a combination of WebSockets, Apache Kafka, and PostgreSQL to allow streaming query results continuously to users’ browsers.