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Kubernetes 1.20: Q&A with Release Lead and VMware Engineer Jeremy Rickard
InfoQ caught up with Jeremy Rickard, release lead and staff engineer at VMware, regarding the Kubernetes 1.20 release, which is one of the largest releases this year.
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Docker Pauses Image Expiration Enforcement, Announces Subscription Tiers
Docker announced that they are pausing enforcement of the changes related to image retention until mid-2021. Earlier, they had announced a change in policies to reduce overall resource consumption on Docker.
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Docker Announces Open Source Compose for AWS ECS & Microsoft ACI
Docker announced that they are open-sourcing the code for the beta implementations of the Amazon ECS and Microsoft Azure Container Instances (ACI) Compose integrations. This is the first time Docker has made Compose available for the cloud.
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Attackers Found Building Malicious Container Images Directly on Host
Aqua’s cyber security research team, ‘Nautilus,’ has found a new attack technique targeting misconfigured Docker Daemon API ports to build an image directly on the target host container infrastructure, in order to mine cryptocurrency. Further investigation by the team uncovered an associated 330k malicious image pulls from an infrastructure of 23 container images stored in Docker Hub.
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Containerizing Java Applications with Jib
Jib, the open source tool for building optimized Docker images for Java applications, has been constantly adding new features to improve the developer and CI/CD experiences. Some of the highlights include the Jib Plugin Extension Framework, native support for popular application frameworks, CI/CD performance improvements, and enhanced development experience on a local Kubernetes with Skaffold.
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Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS ECS and Fargate
Docker has announced the public beta of their enhanced integration of Docker with AWS Elastic Container Service and AWS Fargate. The release of the ECS plugin allows for developers to work within the Docker experience to create the necessary infrastructure to operate within AWS.
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GitHub Super Linter Helps Developers Ensure No Broken Code Is Ever Merged
GitHub Super Linter aims to automate the process of setting up your GitHub repositories so they will use the appropriate linter for your language whenever a pull request is created.
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Dekorate: Generating Kubernetes and OpenShift Manifests for Java Projects
Dekorate, formerly the ap4k project which stood for Annotation Processors for Kubernetes, is designed to make the generation of Kubernetes and OpenShift manifests in Java based projects easier. The project was rebranded since it now supports decorating Kubernetes manifests without the use of annotations, so the name ap4k no longer describes the project accurately.
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Docker Q&A on the New Compose Specification Community
Docker released a community for developing the Compose specification to help developers build cloud-native applications using compose. There've been different implementations of Docker compose to make it work in platforms like Kubernetes or AWS ECS. But Docker wants to work with the community to provide better support and define the future of Compose.
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Docker Donates Converter Library for Storing CNAB Bundles in Container Registries to cnab.io
Docker announced that they have donated the cnab-to-oci library to the Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB) project. The library can convert and push CNAB application bundles to OCI-compliant registries by leveraging existing OCI abstractions.
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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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Improved File Sharing in Docker Desktop for Windows Enhances Developer Experience
Docker has released a new fileshare implementation for Docker Desktop for Windows as part of the 2.1.7.0 edge release. This new fileshare makes use of FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) and allows for more seamless sharing of files between host and container. This includes being able to edit source on the host, save, and see the changes live in the browser on the container.
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Google Announces General Availability of Skaffold for Easing Kubernetes Development
Google announced the general availability of Skaffold, a tool that simplifies common tasks when developing and deploying to Kubernetes. Skaffold can auto-detect and deploy changes automatically in development mode, and build, test and deploy changes in deployment mode. Skaffold supports multiple tools in the various stages of its pipeline.
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Fully-Managed Serverless Platform Google Cloud Run is Now GA
Google Cloud Run is Google's fully managed solution for running containerized, serverless applications. After a six-month beta phase, Cloud Run is now generally available, along with Cloud Run for Anthos, which enables running your Google Cloud Run application on premises using a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster.
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Docker Enterprise Business and Team Move to Mirantis While Docker Gets New Funding
Mirantis, a Cloud consulting company focused on Kubernetes and OpenStack, has acquired Docker Enterprise. While Mirantis will focus on the enterprise segment, the part of Docker which is not being acquired will return to the company's original goal of improving developers' workflows.