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Google Announces Anthos Support for Multi-Cloud is Generally Available
In a recent blog post, Google announced that Athos support for multi-cloud is generally available. With Anthos, customers can now consolidate all their operations across on-premises, Google Cloud, and other clouds starting with AWS and Microsoft Azure as it is currently in preview.
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Managing Infrastructure from Kubernetes with the HashiCorp Terraform Operator
HashiCorp has released the alpha version of the Terraform operator for Kubernetes to manage infrastructure as code from Kubernetes. After installing the operator, users can synchronize Terraform workspaces using Kubernetes manifests. Then, applications running in Kubernetes can reference Terraform outputs using ConfigMaps. For now, this operator only works for Terraform Cloud.
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Microsoft Updates Azure Dedicated Hosts with Reservations, Maintenance Control and More
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced new updates to its Dedicated Host service in Azure. The public cloud vendor made a few updates to the service such as cost-saving reservations, maintenance control, further options with SKUs, and Resource Health alerts.
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Spectro Cloud Launches a Kubernetes-Based Hybrid Cloud Platform
Spectro Cloud, an enterprise cloud-native infrastructure company, launched a platform for managing multiple distributions of Kubernetes. The platform bearing the company name gives customers fine-grained control, flexibility and multi-cloud capabilities for their Kubernetes stack, including the ease of use and scalability of a managed SaaS platform.
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Google Introduces Machine Images to Simplify Making and Restoring Virtual Machines
In a recent blog post, Google announced machine images, a new type of Compute Engine resource containing all the information users need to create, backup or restore a virtual machine, and thus reducing the amount of time required for managing environments. The feature in Compute Engine is currently in beta, and not covered by any SLA or deprecation policy.
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How Jetstack Set Up a Global Load Balancer for Multiple Kubernetes Clusters
Jetstack's engineering team talked about setting up a global load balancer across multiple Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters while utilizing Google’s non-standard container-native load balancing with Google Cloud Armor for DDoS protection.
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VMware Details its Tanzu/Kubernetes Strategy after Pivotal Merger
After acquiring Pivotal at the end of last year, VMware has detailed in a Webinar how it will go about fulfilling its strategy aimed to help customers build their apps, run them using Kubernetes, and manage them from a single control plane.
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Instana Performance Provider Adds vSphere Support
Microservice application performance management provider, Instana, has released new capabilities for monitoring the VMware vSphere Suite, as well as applications running on vSphere infrastructure. Instana correlates infrastructure and application performance metrics and the latest release includes the ability to discover, map and monitor components running on VMware’s vSphere suite.
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Amazon Introduces Saving Plans for AWS Compute Services
Amazon introduces a new flexible pricing model for customers called Savings Plans, which can lead up to 72% of cost savings on Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate in exchange for committing to a consistent amount of compute usage (e.g. $10/hour) for a one to three-year term.
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SAP and Microsoft Extend Partnership, Introducing New HANA VMs, Identity and Blockchain Integration
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced its expanded partnership with SAP, following up on the announcements made at the SAP SAPPHIRE NOW event. This announcement includes new investments in larger Mv2 Series SAP Virtual Machines that include up to 12 TB of memory for SAP HANA, improved SAP HANA infrastructure monitoring using Azure Monitor and co-innovation in the area of data governance.
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The benefits and Challenges of Bringing Infrastructure as Code into a CD Pipeline: Honeycomb Q&A
Honeycomb is a tool for introspecting and interrogating production systems. The team has been a long-time pioneer of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and is currently using Terraform for their configuration-as-code management. They recently made a push to bring the rigor from their binary release process to their infrastructure configuration releases.
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HashiConf US 2019: Terraform and Consul Updates, Multi-* Workflows, and Shared Learning
At the fifth HashiConf US conference, held in Seattle, the HashiCorp founders made several new feature announcements for their Terraform and Consul products. Additional key takeaways from the event included: focus on workflows, not tooling; the software delivery world is becoming multi-cloud/platform/service; and there is still much that developers can learn from operations teams, and vice versa.
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Addressing Multi-Cloud Automation, HashiCorp Releases Terraform Cloud
In a recent blog post, HashiCorp announced the full release of Terraform Cloud, an open-source SaaS platform for teams to manage their infrastructure-as-code workflows. This orchestration takes place through cloud-agnostic tools that allow teams to improve their productivity through repeatable automation. This announcement follows their May 2019 announcement of Remote State Management.
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VMware’s Project Pacific Integrates Kubernetes with vSphere
VMware announced Project Pacific, a re-architected version of vSphere, which embeds the Kubernetes control plane inside it. It aims to provide uniform management of containers and virtual machines in vSphere installations.
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DigitalOcean Adds Managed MySQL and Redis Services
Cloud provider DigitalOcean recently released a pair of new managed data services. Their Managed MySQL and Redis offerings are on-demand and elastic, and offer a variety of sizes and high-availablity options.