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Crossplane Reaches Production Maturity by Graduating CNCF
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has graduated Crossplane, marking a major milestone for the open-source project that turns Kubernetes into a universal control plane for cloud infrastructure. For practitioners, it signals that Crossplane is no longer an experimental idea but a production-hardened foundation for building internal platforms.
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Argo CD v3.1 Introduces OCI Support and Enhanced UI Capabilities
The Argo Project has announced the release of Argo CD v3.1, marking the first major feature update since the foundational v3.0 release. This version introduces OCI registry support, CLI plugins, enhanced Hydrator functionality, and improved user interface capabilities, positioning the GitOps tool for broader enterprise adoption
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Flux 2.6 GA Release and Security Advancements
The Flux project announced the availability of Flux v2.6.0. This version marks the General Availability (GA) of the Flux Open Container Initiative (OCI) Artifacts features, representing a fundamental shift in how organizations approach GitOps.
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Flux v2.5 Release: Expanding GitOps Capabilities with CEL Integration and GitHub App Auth
Flux, the popular GitOps tool for Kubernetes, has released version 2.5, bringing a host of powerful new capabilities that significantly enhance its functionality and flexibility. This release represents a substantial evolution in Flux's capabilities, with features that the community has been eagerly awaiting. Let's explore what's new and how these changes can improve your GitOps workflows.
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How to Go from Copy and Paste Deployments to Full GitOps
InnerSource helped reduce the amount of development work involved when introducing GitOps by sharing company-specific logic, Jemma Hussein Allen said at QCon London. She showed how they went from copy and paste deployments to full GitOps. She mentioned that a psychologically safe environment is really important for open and honest discussions that can help resolve pain points and drive innovation.
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Optimizing Adidas' Container Platform Using GitOps
Adidas recently discussed how they evolved their platform configuration towards a GitOps-based setup. In a series of blog posts, Adidas elaborated on the utilization of GitOps in their container platform and how they plan to introduce improvements in the management of their platform.
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Zurich Insurance Group's Journey with Scalable Account Vending and AWS Account Factory for Terraform
AWS recently highlighted Zurich Insurance Group's use of AWS Account Factory for Terraform, which enabled them to attain the desired performance parameters needed to facilitate the provisioning of more than 3000 accounts. Zurich Insurance Group streamlined its Cloud Adoption Strategy by using the Scalable Account Vending solution, automating the process of setting up new AWS environments easily.
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Why Cloud Zombies Are Destroying the Planet and How You Can Stop Them
At QCon London, Holly Cummins, Quarkus senior principal software engineer at RedHat, talked about how utilization and elasticity relate to sustainability. In addition, she introduced a range of practical zombie-hunting techniques, including absurdly simple automation, LightSwitchOps, and FinOps.
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Google Releases Kubernetes GitOps Observability Dashboard
Google Cloud introduced Config Management Dashboard that allows the Platform Administrator or Operator to have a real-time picture of configuration syncs and failures across multiple Kubernetes clusters.
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NubesGen Brings Git Push to Azure Infrastructure
With a new command-line interface (CLI) available in its v0.8.0 release, NubesGen can now automatically find its configuration, and set up a GitOps workflow for deploying Infrastructure as Code into Azure, allowing developers to easily get up and running with cloud infrastructure for their projects. InfoQ interviewed Julien Dubois, project leader of NubesGen, on the product and where it’s headed.
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Qovery: a Heroku for Almost Any Cloud Provider?
Qovery started on a journey to build a developer’s productivity tool which would allow scaling companies to keep up the rapid pace of delivery, without sacrificing quality or stability. One way is by combining the simplicity and “magic” of a PaaS, like Heroku, with IaaS’ flexibility. In a conversation with InfoQ, the CEO and founder, Romaric Philogene, provided more insights into their journey.
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Litmus 2.0 Release Includes Multi-Tenancy, Chaos Workflows, GitOps, and Observability
Last month, Litmus 2.0 was released for general availability, with the goal of simplifying chaos engineering by adding new features like chaos center, chaos workflows, GitOps for chaos, multi-tenancy, observability, and private chaos hubs. InfoQ interviewed Umasankar Mukkara, CEO of ChaosNative and co-creator and maintainer of Litmus engineering platform.
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CNCF Promotes GitOps Tool Flux to Incubated Status
The CNCF has promoted the Flux project from the sandbox level to incubated level. This is not only proof of widespread use of Flux, but also of its joining the GitOps family of projects and bringing a unified toolkit approach to continuous delivery.
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Cheryl Hung on Trends in Cloud Native and DevOps for 2021
In a recent keynote for The DEVOPS Conference, Cheryl Hung, VP ecosystem for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), shared her top 10 predictions for cloud native in the upcoming year. This includes improvements in cross cloud support, growth in GitOps and chaos engineering practices, and an increase in the adoption of FinOps.
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Git 2.31 Release: Maintenance Moved to Background
Git 2.31 sees the light at almost three months after the previous official version. It brings the option of running git maintenance in background and also the addition of reverse index files. You can conclude that its main focus is a more efficient tool with increased usability.