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Docker Now Requiring Paid Subscription for Large Businesses
Docker has introduced a new Subscription Service Agreement which requires organizations with more than 250 employees or more than $10 million in revenue to buy a paid subscription, starting at $5 per user per month. Additionally, Docker has launched a new Business subscription plan for larger organizations operating at scale.
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Karmada 0.7: Next-Gen Multi-Cloud and Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Orchestration
Karmada (Kubernetes Armada) 0.7, featuring a promising Kubernetes management system in the hybrid cloud era, became available on July 12, 2021. It brought multi-cluster service discovery, precise cluster status management, replica scheduling based on cluster resources, and more convenient APIs to divide replicas by weight list.
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CNCF Publishes Latest Technology Radar Focused on Multicluster Management
CNCF published the fifth edition of the End User Technology Radar. This time the theme was multicluster management split between cluster deployment and core services and add-ons related to tooling and day-two operations.
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AWS Announces Customizable Image Support for Amazon EMR on EKS
Recently, AWS announced customizable image support for Amazon EMR on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that allows customers to modify the Docker runtime image that runs their analytics application using Apache Spark on their EKS cluster.
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Making a Case against Kubernetes at Ably
In a recent article in the Ably Engineering series, Ably's engineer Maik Zumstrull explained why real-time messaging platform Ably does not use Kubernetes. InfoQ has taken the change to speak with Zumstrull to learn more.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Arc-Enabled SQL
Recently Microsoft announced the general availability as per the end of July of Azure Arc-enabled SQL, which extends the Azure SQL instances to be hosted on an edge data center or in a multi-cloud environment. An Azure Arc enabled SQL Managed Instance has near 100% compatibility with the latest SQL Server database engine.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of Amazon ECS Anywhere
Recently AWS announced the general availability of Amazon ECS Anywhere, a new capability in Amazon ECS that enables customers to quickly run and manage container-based applications on-premises, including virtual machines (VMs), bare-metal servers, and other customer-managed infrastructure.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Logic App Standard
At the annual Build conference, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of Logic App Standard, the latest installment of their integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) offering. Logic App Standard is a new single-tenant offering allowing customers to run workflows anywhere.
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Confluent Announces Confluent for Kubernetes into General Availability
Recently, Confluent announced the general availability (GA) of Confluent for Kubernetes, a complete, declarative API-driven experience for deploying and self-managing Confluent Platform as a cloud-native system. With Confluent for Kubernetes, the company packages its event-streaming platform into Kubernetes and provides a Cloud-Native offering.
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Aqua Security's Latest Report Highlights Increase in Cloud Attacks
Aqua Security published a report outlining their analysis of a year's worth of security remediation data. This report found that nearly no organization addressed all identified issues with enterprise organizations taking on average 88 days to resolve the issues they do address. Their analysis found a large increase in attacks against container-based and cloud-native infrastructure.
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Gremlin Adds Automated Service Discovery for Targeting Chaos Experiments
Gremlin, a chaos engineering platform, recently announced automated service discovery. This new feature will auto discover services running within dynamic environments. These services are then available to target for chaos experiments. Gremlin has also added role based access control for their API keys.
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Google Brings Databricks to Its Cloud Platform
Recently Google announced a partnership with Databricks to bring their fully-managed Apache Spark offering and data lake capabilities to Google Cloud. The offering will become available as Databricks on Google Cloud.
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Newest TeamTNT IRC Bot Steals AWS and Docker Credentials
Cybercrime group TeamTNT’s internet relay chat (IRC) bot has had its functionality expanded from resource theft for crypto-mining to include the theft of Docker API, AWS, GCP and secure shell (SSH) credentials. Researchers have identified multiple recent changes in post-invasion behaviour. The crime group have likened it to a 'Docker Gatling Gun'.
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Google Updates Its Cloud Run Service Support for WebSockets, HTTP/2, and gRPC Bidirectional Streams
Cloud Run is a managed compute platform that enables developers to run stateless containers invocable via web requests or Pub/Sub events. It is serverless, meaning all infrastructure management is abstract away, and developers can focus more on building applications.
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The "Wasmer" WebAssembly Runtime is Generally Available
Wasmer recently released version 1.0 of its server-side WebAssembly runtime, and it is now generally available. Wasmer enables super lightweight containers based on WebAssembly. Version 1.0 marks a significant milestone on a journey, which started more than two years ago with version 0.1.0. It is an indicator of the growing interest in WebAssembly on the server-side.