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CNCF Incubating Project Update Focuses on Adoption and Releases at KubeCon EU
As part of the KubeCon EU keynotes, the CNCF provided a series of project updates underlying the notable changes in the ecosystem. The information provided focused on the ongoing initiatives, adoption rate, and notable publications or releases.
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CNCF Graduated Project Update Focuses on Landscape Diversity and Maturity at KubeCon EU
The CNCF’s charter defines its mission “is to make cloud-native computing ubiquitous”. Their supported technologies aim to allow organizations to build public, private, or on-premise clouds based on loosely coupled systems that are resilient, manageable, and observable. During KubeCon EU, the CNCF provided a status update of the graduated projects.
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Mammoths Stumping in the Cloud Era: Meeting EU Regulations by Being Cloud Native and Cloud Agnostic
Financial institutions are famous for their conservative approach in multiple areas, technology being no exception. Many of them are still running mainframe solutions built a long time ago. But together with times, the banks are changing too: at KubeConEU mBank, a polish bank showed how it managed to marry Cloud Native and Cloud Agnotisc principles to also satisfy the EU regulation in the field.
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D2iQ Releases DKP 2.0 to Run Kubernetes Apps at Scale
D2iQ recently released version 2.0 of the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP), a platform to help organizations run Kubernetes workloads at scale. The new release provides a single pane of glass for managing multi-cluster environments and running applications across any infrastructure including private cloud, public cloud, or at the network edge.
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AWS Amplify Introduces New Full-Stack CI/CD Features to Simplify Application Development
AWS Amplify has recently introduced conditional backend builds, automatic build-time generation of cloud configuration and a simpler way to reuse backends across multiple frontend applications.
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Google Introduces a New Version of Its Cloud Shell Editor
Google provides customers with Cloud Shell - a command-line editor in a browser to access their cloud resources directly. In a recent blog post, Google introduced a new version of its Cloud Shell Editor, which is available as a preview.
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Minimizing Backend Complexity with Dark: A New Language with Integrated Editor and Infrastructure
Dark aims to simplify the development of backends by minimizing complexity. Dark is a programming language with an integrated editor and infrastructure for developing and delivering backend applications.
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Eclipse Introduces New IDE-Agnostic Tools for Building and Deploying Cloud-Native Applications
Eclipse Codewind is a new developer-centric project from the Eclipse Foundation that aims to assist developers by providing ways to quickly and consistently accomplish tasks that are common to cloud-native application development.
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Micronaut 1.1 Features Enhanced Support for Building Cloud-Native Applications
During the recent Google Cloud Next conference, Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) announced the release of Micronaut 1.1 featuring support for gRPC, GraphQL, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), RabbitMQ and Amazon Web Services (AWS). There is also a new Bean Introspection API that replaces the JDK Introspector class and new templates for the Micronaut Test project.
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Five Initiatives to Modernize Jenkins and Kill the "Jenkinsteins"
Kohsuke Kawaguchi, creator of Jenkins and CTO at CloudBees, spoke last month at Jenkins World in Nice about five on-going initiatives to modernize the popular CI/CD tool. The initiatives revolve around Jenkins Evergreen, Jenkins Pipeline (Blue Ocean), Jenkins Configuration-as-Code, Jenkins X, and Cloud-Native Jenkins.
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Vaughn Vernon: The Reality of Being Cloud-Native and Reactive
Reactive, Streaming and NoSQL are important concepts today and can be very useful, and sometimes considered compulsory for cloud-native applications, but Vaughn Vernon emphasizes in a blog post that not all systems within in a company must use all these concepts to achieve the full benefits of the cloud.
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Patterns and Practices for Cloud Native Continuous Delivery
Christian Deger, chief architect at RIO – a Brand of Volkswagen Truck & Bus, recently shared a set of patterns and practices for implementing cloud native continuous delivery at the Continuous Lifecycle Conference in London.
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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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SkyWalking Accepted by Apache Software Foundation as an Incubator Project
SkyWalking's proposal into the Incubator has been voted on and accepted by Apache Software Foundation(ASF) IPMC. SkyWalking is an APM (application performance monitor) tool, especially designed for microservices, cloud-native and container-based architectures. SkyWalking’s underlying technology is a distributed tracing system.
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IBM and Lightbend Announce Initiative to Build New Platform for Cognitive Development
IBM has announced a strategic investment in reactive pioneer and Scala language custodian, Lightbend. The two companies will collaborate to build a new platform for cognitive development. Mark Brewer, CEO at Lightbend spoke exclusively to InfoQ about this collaboration.