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AppDeveloperCon Offers Deep Dives into Developer-Focused CNCF Projects
Monday the 6th of November in Chicago Illinois, Application Developer Con was held during the co-located events at KubeCon North America 2023. The full day event focused on cloud native developers and featured talks on CNCF projects (such as OpenFGA, Dapr, TestContainers, and OpenFeature), eventing, patterns like choreography/orchestration, and ways of working in today’s cloud native environments.
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Grafana Cloud Kubernetes Monitoring with Machine Learning Predictions
Managing cloud costs can be challenging as Kubernetes fleets scale. To address this issue, Grafana Cloud has introduced a cost-monitoring feature within Kubernetes Monitoring. In particular, Grafana Cloud’s Kubernetes Monitoring now offers ML predictions for CPU and memory usage.
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eBPF Kubernetes Security Tool Tetragon Improves Performance and Stability
Isovalent has announced the 1.0 release of Cilium Tetragon, their eBPF-based Kubernetes security observability and runtime enforcement tool. Policies and filters can be applied directly via eBPF to monitor process execution, privilege escalations, and file and network activity.
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Goldsky’s Streaming-First Architecture for Blockchain Data with Flink, Redpanda and Kubernetes
Goldsky created a platform for the real-time processing of blockchain data. The platform allows clients to extract data from blockchains into their own databases to support product features, but without running the data pipeline infrastructure. The event-driven architecture (EDA) of Goldsky leverages Apache Flink, Redpanda, Kubernetes, and cloud provider services.
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Microsoft Announces Radius: a New Open Application Platform for the Cloud
Microsoft has recently announced Radius, a cloud-native application platform designed to facilitate collaboration between developers and platform engineers who assist them in delivering and managing cloud-native applications. This platform ensures that these applications adhere to corporate standards for cost-efficiency, operational efficiency, and security as the default approach.
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Uber Migrates 4000+ Microservices to a New Multi-Cloud Platform Running Kubernetes and Mesos
Uber moved most of its containerized microservices from µDeploy to a new multi-cloud platform named Up in preparation for migrating a considerable portion of its compute footprint to the cloud. The company spent two years working on making its many microservices portable so that they can be migrated between different compute infrastructure and container management platforms.
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Reddit Unveils REV2: Modernised Rule-Execution with Kubernetes, Kafka, and Flink Stateful Functions
Reddit's Safety Engineering team recently published how it modernised its Rule-Execution system, which detects and acts on policy-violating content in real time. The new architecture includes improvements like transitioning from legacy EC2-based systems to Kubernetes, better rule version control with Github and S3 storage, and the capability to scale more efficiently with Flink Stateful Functions.
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CRI-O Graduates from CNCF, Sees Increased Adoption in Cloud Native Environments
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced the graduation of the CRI-O project which provides a secure, performant, and stable Container Runtime Interface (CRI) implementation for kubelet in Kubernetes production environments. The project has been adopted by seven new organizations, released 11 new minor versions, and had more than 4,000 commits to the main branch.
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LF Asia & CNCF Kick off KubeCon+CloudNativeCon+Open Source Summit China 2023
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2023 kicked off this week in Shanghai. It’s the premier event for developers, technologists, and technology leaders in Asia concerning all things Open Source, Kubernetes, and Cloud Native. The event attracted over 2000 attendees and 20 sponsors and included 150 sessions.
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Linkerd 2.14 Improves Support on Flat Networks and Gateway API Conformance
Version 2.14 of Linkerd, a service mesh and graduated CNCF project, has been released, with improved enterprise multi-cluster support, full Kubernetes Gateway API conformance, and many other changes.
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Kubernetes 1.28 Released with New Repositories and Fixes for Privilege Escalation in Windows
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released Kubernetes 1.28 named Planternetes. The release has new features such as mixed version proxy, support for CDI injection into containers, and sidecar container awareness.
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HashiCorp Vault Secrets Operator for Kubernetes Moves into General Availability
HashiCorp has moved the HashiCorp Vault Secrets Operator for Kubernetes into general availability. This Kubernetes Operator combines Vault's secret management tooling with the Kubernetes Secrets cache. The operator also handles secret rotation and has controllers for the various secret-specific custom resources.
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Grafana Beyla Provides Auto-Instrumented Observability through eBPF
Grafana has released Grafana Beyla, an open-source eBPF auto-instrumentation tool for application observability. Beyla is able to report span information and RED metrics (Rate-Errors-Duration) for both Linux HTTP/S and gRPC services. This is accomplished without having to make code modifications for inserting probes.
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Ngrok Starts Offering One Static Domain to All of its Free Users
To make it easier for developers to expose their local services to the Internet while developing them, ngrok is now providing them with the possibility to create and use one static domain for free, instead of relying on time-limited, random domains.
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Kubeflow, the Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes, Has Been Accepted as CNCF Incubation Project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundations (CNCF) has recently announced that Kubeflow, the toolkit to deploy machine learning (ML) workflow onto Kubernetes, was accepted as a CNCF incubating project after the vote of the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC).