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Microsoft Enhances Azure SQL Database, Active Directory and Media Services
Microsoft announced new features to Azure SQL Database, Azure Active Directory, Azure RMS and Azure Media Services.
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FOSDEM Configuration Management: Open Source Infrastructure
Spencer Krum and Elizabeth K. Joseph shared their experience both using and providing the public infrastructure used by OpenStack at the configuration management developer room at FOSDEM.
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Powerstrip: A Tool for Prototyping Docker Extensions
ClusterHQ, the team behind Flocker, have announced Powerstrip, an Apache licensed tool to prototype Docker extensions. Powerstrip works as a proxy between the Docker command line interface (CLI) and the Docker daemon allowing the Docker API to be extended. The main advantage of this approach is that it becomes much easier to compose together Docker add ons such as Flocker or Weave.
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FOSDEM Configuration Management: Consul First Steps and Orchestration of Services with Juju
FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting, took place this weekend in Brussels, Belgium, with over 4000 participants. This year the conference had over 40 tracks, both official and developer rooms organized by different communities, dedicated to diverse subjects such as Ruby, virtualization or config management.
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VMware Launches Integrated OpenStack Distribution
VMware’s own distribution of OpenStack, VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) is launched at a press event in San Francisco.
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FOSDEM Configuration Management: Practices for Infrastructure as Code and Puppet Modules
FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting, took place this weekend in Brussels, Belgium, with over 4000 participants. This year the conference had over 40 tracks, both official and developer rooms organized by different communities, dedicated to diverse subjects such as Ruby, virtualization or config management.
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A Service View of Business Driven DevOps
Over the years Steve Jones has had a lot to say about Business SOA. Recently he's turned his attention to DevOps and believes there are some important lessons that DevOps can learn from SOA and Business Architecture.
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Microsoft Uses Cloud Platform System to Run Internal Production Workloads
According to an official blog post, Microsoft’s Cloud Platform System (CPS) is running Microsoft’s internal IaaS private cloud codenamed “Nebula”.
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Amazon EC2 Gains Two-Minute Warning for Spot Instance Termination
Amazon EC2 recently gained two-minute warnings before Spot Instances are reclaimed, a feature "formally known as a Spot Instance Termination Notice". The goal is to "allow more types of applications to benefit from the scale and low price of Spot Instances" by giving them time to save state, upload log files, or deregister from other components such as load balancers or cluster managers.
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Atlas: Netflix's Primary Telemetry Platform
Netflix has open sourced Atlas, part of their next-generation monitoring platform they have been working on since early 2012. The company developed Atlas to store time series data in order to provide near real-time operational insight to teams.
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CoreOS Shipped the First Stable Version of etcd
CoreOS announced the availability of etcd 2.0, the first stable version of the open source distributed key-value store.
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Google Adds Private Docker Registry to Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform now has its own private registry to host Docker images. This enables DevOps teams to securely store and retrieve Docker images.
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VMware Will Offer Google Cloud Services and Rackspace Offers vCloud
Cloud vendors are combining their strengths to provide extra services for their customers. The latest developments include VMware offering Google BigQuery and Rackspace building private dedicate vCloud’s.
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Amazon Adds Managed Email and Calendaring Service to AWS Portfolio
Amazon announced the launch of Amazon WorkMail, a managed business email and calendaring service.
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Mesosphere Release Mesos-DNS Service Discovery for Apache Mesos
Mesosphere have released an alpha version of Mesos-DNS, an open source service discovery framework for cloud environments running applications on the Apache Mesos cluster manager.