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Cloud Development Kit Can Now Generate Terraform Configurations Using TypeScript and Python
AWS, HashiCorp, and Terrastack collaborated to release a preview of the CDK for Terraform, or cdktf. Developers can use programming languages like Python or Typescript to manage infrastructure as code. cdktf generates a Terraform configuration in JSON. Also, cdktf supports any existing modules and providers from the Terraform registry to deploy resources to AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
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Amazon Announces the General Availability of Monitoring Service AWS IoT SiteWise
IoT SiteWise is a fully managed service in AWS, which automates the processing of data from the plant floor, the structuring and marking of data, and generation of real-time metrics to monitor. The service provides customers with a way to connect their on-premise industrial equipment via a gateway to link their on-premises servers to the AWS cloud, where the data accumulates for analysis.
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Oracle Announces a Fully-Managed Cloud Region with Cloud@Customer
In a recent press release, Oracle announced a fully-managed dedicated cloud region providing a full stack of Oracle’s public cloud services, including Oracle Autonomous Database and Cloud applications, to customer data centers. The region brings all of Oracle’s second-generation cloud services starting from $500K USD per month.
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OverOps Releases Second Annual DevOps Survey
In their recent survey, OverOps, a continuous reliability platform vendor, found that within DevOps investment initiatives, organizations invest the most towards enabling the constant flow of software development. The survey also revealed that automated code analysis is being adopted more as engineering teams embrace cutting-edge technologies and practices.
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Puppet Relay Provides Event-Driven Automation for Common Workflows
Puppet has announced the beta release of Relay, their event driven automation platform. Relay allows for automating processes as code. There are a number of pre-written workflows and there is support for creating additional workflows. Relay has a number of integrations available for use in workflows including AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, PagerDuty, and GitHub.
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Helidon 2.0 Features New Web Client, DB Client and Command-Line Tool
Oracle has formally released Helidon 2.0 with a host of new significant features such as: support for reactive messaging and streams; a new command-line tool, a new web client API for Helidon SE, GraalVM support for Helidon MP, and a new reactive database client. Dmitry Kornilov, director of software development at Oracle, spoke to infoQ about this latest release.
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Rancher Labs Discuss the Adoption of Kubernetes "Everywhere"
In a recent podcast, Shannon Williams, co-founder and president at Rancher Labs, and Darren Shepherd, co-founder and CTO at Rancher Labs, sat down with InfoQ and discussed the adoption of hybrid cloud across organisations. Additional topics covered included: the evolution of Kubernetes as a key abstraction for portability and cross-cloud security and running thousands of clusters at the edge.
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Google Launches the First NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPUs in the Cloud with Computing Engine A2 VMs
In a recent blog post, Google announced the introduction of the Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) family on Google Compute Engine, based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPU. A2 provides up to 16 GPUs in a single VM and is the first A100-based offering in the public cloud.
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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon RDS Proxy
Amazon RDS Proxy is a new fully managed, highly available database proxy for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases running on Amazon RDS and Aurora. The service is tailored to serverless architectures and other applications that open and close database connections at a high rate.
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Why Coinbase Is Not Using Kubernetes to Run Their Container Workloads
Coinbase recently wrote about why Kubernetes is not part of their technology stack. Coinbase uses containers, but they run them in VMs. For deployments, they use Odin, its open-source solution for deploying their services in VMs as auto-scaling groups. Adopting Kubernetes adds unnecessary complexity to their current deployment pipeline, and it is not the right tool for them at the moment.
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Incident Management During Remote Work
Michael Fisher, a technology enthusiast and group product manager at OpsRamp, recently blogged about how IT operations and DevOps teams can take a problem-first approach towards the incident management process. On the same lines, Dr. Laura Maguire and Nora Jones wrote about similar challenges as the world reacts to COVID-19.
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CNCF Accepts Contour, a Kubernetes Ingress Controller, as an Incubating Project
The CNCF Technical Steering Committee (TOC) announced that they have accepted Contour as an incubating project. Contour is an Ingress controller for Kubernetes that uses the Envoy Layer 7 (L7) proxy as a data plane.
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Google Donates Trademarks to New Foundation
On Wednesday, Google created a new Open Usage Commons Foundation for the purpose of hosting trademarks relating to open source projects under its control; Istio, Angular and Gerrit trademarks were moved over. Not everyone approves of this move, and the benefits are questionable. InfoQ looks behind the story to find out what it means for developers everywhere.
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QCon San Francisco Announces 2020 Tracks
The Program Committee behind QCon San Francisco (Nov 16-18), the software conference for senior software engineers, architects, and team leads, announced the tracks for the 2020 edition of the conference.
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Google Announces Its Cloud VMware Engine Is Now Generally Available
In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability of its Cloud VMware Engine. With the release, customers can migrate their existing VMware-based applications to Google Cloud without refactoring or rewriting them.