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Weaveworks Releases Ignite, AWS Firecracker-Powered Software for Running Containers as VMs
Software startup Weaveworks celebrated their fifth birthday by releasing an open source project called Weave Ignite. This project is billed as a "GitOps-managed virtual machine (VM) with a container UX." This novel software uses Firecracker, the AWS open source project that underpins AWS Lambda. InfoQ spoke to team behind the project to learn more.
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Using Helm Charts Tools to Manage Kubernetes Deployments at Delivery Hero
Delivery Hero’s engineering team uses Helm and related tools to simplify management of multiple Kubernetes environments, sensitive data, and configuration.
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Google Releases Deep Learning Containers into Beta
In a recent blog post, Google announced Deep Learning Containers, allowing customers to get Machine Learning projects up and running quicker. Deep Learning consists of numerous performance-optimized Docker containers that come with a variety of tools necessary for deep learning tasks already installed.
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Introduction to Service Mesh Interface (SMI): Brendan Burns at QCon New York
Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification provides an abstraction layer on top of different service mesh implementations so it'll be easier to swap the implementations w/o changing the processes. Brendan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes and currently Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, spoke recently at the QCon New York 2019 Conference, about the new specification and its future roadmap.
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Oliver Gould on Linkerd Service Mesh and Traffic Management
Oliver Gould, Linkerd product lead and CTO of Buyont, spoke at the QCon New York 2019 Conference last week about Linkerd service mesh, with a focus on traffic management capabilities.
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DOES London: ITV Autoscaling for Love Island
Tom Clark from ITV, a UK-based commercial producer and broadcaster, gave his fourth talk at DevOps Enterprise Summit London recently, titled 'Better, Faster, Cheaper, Happier,’ building on the evolutionary story of the common platform for which he is accountable.
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Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Has Linux Kernel Shipping in Windows
Windows announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 is now available through the Windows Insiders program. WSL allows developers to run a Linux environment, including most command line tools and utilities, directly within Windows. WSL 2 presents a new architecture that aims to increase file system performance and provide full system call compatibility.
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Service Mesh Interface (SMI): Q&A with Microsoft's Lachlan Evenson
InfoQ caught up with Lachlan Evenson, principal program manager at Microsoft, regarding the recent announcement at KubeCon of the Service Mesh Interface (SMI). Topics also discussed included the ecosystem of service meshes on Kubernetes.
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Kyma 1.0 Released, Simplifying Integrating Enterprise Applications with Cloud-Native Services
The first major release of Kyma, an open-source project designed to simplify building cloud-based and on-premise enterprise applications, is now available. Kyma provides components to simplify connecting existing and new applications with Kubernetes and expose them via the Kubernetes Service Catalog, with out-of-the-box support for monitoring, logging, eventing, tracing, and authentication.
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Harbor 1.8 Includes OIDC Integration and Replication Enhancements
The latest version of Harbor, 1.8, was recently released. Harbor is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project that provides a cloud-native registry for storing, signing, and scanning container images. This release includes an OpenID Connect integration, the addition of robot accounts, and improvements to the replication features, among other improvements.
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Migrating from Self-Managed Kubernetes to AWS EKS Using Terraform at Blue Matador
Blue Matador migrated their self-managed Kubernetes cluster to AWS EKS to take advantage of a better security model, a managed control plane, and lesser costs, using Terraform to automate the setup.
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Percona XtraDB and MongoDB Operators for Kubernetes
Percona announced the release of Percona Kubernetes Operator for XtraDB and Percona Server for MongoDB. Percona, a database software company, designed the XtraDB and MongoDB operators to remove the burden of repetitive tasks and provide consistency and reliability in a Kubernetes environment.
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GitLab 11.11 Brings Multiple Assignees for Merge Requests, Windows Container Executor, and More
GitLab 11.11, recently released, brings Multiple Assignees for Merge Requests, Windows Container Executor for GitLab Runners, Guest Access to Releases, instance-level Kubernetes cluster, and more.
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Chaos Engineering Kubernetes with the Litmus Framework
Litmus is an open source chaos engineering framework for Kubernetes environments running stateful applications. Created by MayaData, Litmus enables users to run test suites, capture logs, generate reports, and perform chaos experiments.
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Google Kubernetes Engine Enhancements: Upgrade Channels, Windows Container Support and Stackdriver
At the recent KubeCon EU in Barcelona, Google announced that it will offer three new release channels for its Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE): Rapid, Regular, and Stable. With these channels, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) users can choose whether they want the freshest release or the most stable one — or quickly evaluate the latest updates in a development environment.
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