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The ALB Ingress Controller Is Now the AWS Load Balancer Controller
AWS has rebranded the Application Load Balancer (ALB) Ingress controller as the AWS Load Balancer Controller, and now includes support for both Application Load Balancers and Network Load Balancers. The public vendor recently announced the renaming and updates to this Load Balancer controller, labeled as a new controller or AWS ALB Ingress Controller v2.
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HashiCorp Enhances Consul with Topology Maps and Improved Kubernetes Integrations
Hashicorp has announced the beta release of Consul 1.9, adding new features to their service mesh platform. This release includes enhancements to the intentions model to support Layer 7 constructs, new visualizations for verifying configurations, and custom resources for Kubernetes.
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Ubuntu 20.10 Brings Full Desktop and Micro Clouds to Raspberry Pi 4
Ubuntu Desktop 20.10 is now fully supported on the Raspberry Pi 4, which can be transformed into a complete Ubuntu workstation, says Ubuntu. Ubuntu 20.10 also introduces Micro Clouds for on-demand compute at the edge.
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HashiCorp Announces 1.0 Beta of Distributed Orchestrator Nomad
HashiCorp announced version 1.0 Beta of Nomad - their orchestration framework for deploying and managing containerized and non-containerized applications.
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AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Available for Public Preview
Recently, AWS announced the public preview of the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, a secure, production-ready, AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. With the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, developers can instrument their applications in one go to send correlated metrics and traces to multiple monitoring solutions ranging from Amazon Cloudwatch to Datadog and Grafana.
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Kubermatic Announces Open Source Service Hub KubeCarrier
Kubermatic, a German-based startup, introduced an open-source tool called KubeCarrier that automates lifecycle management of services, applications, and hardware using Kubernetes Operators. The goal of the tool is to provide scalability and repeatability to meet the organization's requirements.
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Chaos Engineering on Kubernetes : Chaos Mesh Generally Available with v1.0
The Chaos Mesh team announced the general availability (GA) of Chaos Mesh 1.0 after it was accepted as a CNCF sandbox project in July 2020. Chaos Mesh is a tool to perform chaos engineering experiments on Kubernetes applications.
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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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DigitalOcean Enters PaaS with App Platform
Specifically targeted at developers, DigitalOcean App Platform aims to make application development a matter of point-and-click. This new offering fills the gap between DigitalOcean Droplets and Kuberbetes-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service products. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with DigitalOcean vice president of products Apurva Joshi to learn more.
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IBM Introduces IBM Cloud Code Engine
IBM has recently announced the beta availability of a new serverless compute service called IBM Cloud Code Engine. The service is a managed serverless platform that runs containerized workloads, for example web apps, micro-services, event-driven functions and batch jobs.
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Microsoft Innovates Its Azure Multi-Cloud, Multi-Edge Hybrid Capabilities
During the recent Ignite virtual conference, Microsoft announced several updates for their Azure multi-cloud and edge hybrid offerings. These updates span from security innovations to new edge capabilities.
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Kubernetes Ingress Is Now Generally Available
The Kubernetes team graduated the Ingress API to general availability (GA) in the 1.19 release after it was first introduced in 2015.
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Microsoft Releases Bridge to Kubernetes
Earlier this week, Microsoft released Bridge to Kubernetes, a Visual Studio extension that allows developers to write, test and debug microservice code locally while consuming dependencies from a Kubernetes environment. The purpose of this extension is to simplify microservices development by eliminating the need for extra assets such as a Dockerfile or Kubernetes manifests.
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CNCF Approves Kubernetes Edge Computing Platform KubeEdge as Incubating Project
The CNCF Technical Steering Committee (TOC) announced the acceptance of KubeEdge as an incubating project. KubeEdge is a platform that aims to provide “infrastructure support for network, application deployment and metadata synchronization between the cloud and edge devices” and uses Kubernetes as the underlying foundation.
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Google Expands Its Confidential Computing Portfolio
In a recent blog post, Google announced the expansion of its Confidential Computing Portfolio with the addition of Confidential Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Nodes. Furthermore, the public cloud vendor will make Confidential Virtual Machines (VMs) publically available.
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