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Kubernetes and OpenShift Q&A with Brian Gracely from Kubecon 2017
InfoQ caught up with Brian Gracely, director product strategy for Red Hat Openshift, about how Kubernetes has helped shape the product direction and how it's relevant to developers and architects.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Bot Service and Language Understanding
Microsoft recently announced that the Azure Bot Service and Language Understanding has become generally available. Both had previously been in public preview for months, and the release increases availability in nine more regions including Ireland, Hong Kong and Sao Paulo, Brazil, and new capabilities to aid developers in achieving more.
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Meltdown and Spectre: What They Are and How to Deal with Them
This article discusses the latest CPU vulnerabilities – Meltdown and Spectre – and the current solutions to fix them.
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Amazon Announces AWS Outposts
Amazon has announced AWS Outposts, allowing to create a hybrid cloud solution through AWS-designed fully managed and maintained compute and storage racks. With AWS Outposts the APIs, infrastructure, tools, and hardware which AWS uses is now also available for on-premises data centers and integrates seamlessly with AWS.
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Microsoft Releases Public Preview of IoT Software-as-a-Service Offering
Microsoft recently announced a public preview of IoT Central, its software-as-a-service solution for the Internet of Things. IoT Central had been in limited preview for a few months with chosen customers who have been trialling the solution and providing feedback.
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Amazon Web Services New Region EU (Paris) Is Now Open for Business
Amazon launches its 18th AWS Region in the Paris area to better serve their customers in and around France. This region will be the fourth in Europe after Germany, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. The French region, called the AWS EU (Paris) region, will provide customers the full stack of AWS services including compute, storage, networking, IoT, AI and serverless computing.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Azure Archive Storage
Microsoft recently announced that the Azure Archive Storage has become generally available. The archive feature for Azure Storage has been available in preview with customers for a few months with customers, and the release includes Blob-Level Tiering. This tier enables customers to optimize storage of the lifecycle data across tiers.
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Google Kubernetes Engine Upgrades: Regional Clusters, New Dashboard and Security Recommendations
Google has enhanced its Kubernetes Engine (GKE) service with a few upgrades. Customers can now use GKE at scale, manage clusters with a web-based dashboard Cloud Console besides the supported kubectl command line interface, and harden the security by applying Google’s best practices for running a Kubernetes cluster.
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Microsoft Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service Hits General Availability
Microsoft recently announced that the Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service has become generally available. The service had previously been in public preview for a few months with customers, and the release adds new functionality and additional language support.
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Kubernetes 1.9 Supports Workloads API, Container Storage Enhancements and Windows Beta Support
The latest version of the container orchestration framework Kubernetes supports GA version of Workloads API, container storage enhancements and Windows support (beta). The Kubernetes team announced the release of version 1.9 last week. This is the fourth and final release this year, and also supports the Custom Resource Definition (CRD) validation.
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KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2017: An "Exciting Time for Boring Infrastructure"
At the joint KubeCon / CloudNativeCon conferences, held in Austin, USA, over 4000 engineers met to learn about and share the latest status of Kubernetes and other cloud native technologies. Core takeaways included that much of the cloud native “boring” infrastructure is starting to become mature, and many of the CNCF hosted technologies are being released as officially ready for production use.
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Amazon Web Services Releases IoT Analytics in Preview
At the recent re:Invent conference, Amazon announced a preview release of AWS IoT Analytics. The solution was presented during a few sessions at the event.
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GitHub Takes Stance for Net Neutrality
At the beginning of December, GitHub made its stance in favor of net neutrality public. Now that the FCC has voted to repeal regulations protecting it, GitHub says the fight is not over. InfoQ has spoken with GitHub’s chief strategy officer, Julio Avalos.
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Microsoft Updates Cosmos DB with Cassandra Support and Provides Better Availability Guarantees
Last month at Microsoft Connect 2017, Azure Cosmos DB received several new updates, including support for using the Cassandra NoSQL database API and increased guarantees for availability. With the Cassandra NoSQL database API, customers can run operations inside Cosmos DB on a data model. The availability guarantee moves from 99.99 percent to 99.999 percent.
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Microsoft Announces Public Preview of IoT Edge
During the recent Connect(); conference, Microsoft announced a new version of the IoT Gateway Software Development Kit (SDK) called IoT Edge to provide edge computing in IoT scenarios.