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Deezer Optimizes Kubernetes Autoscaling with Custom Metrics
Popular music streaming service Deezer has written about using custom metrics to enable auto-scaling in its Kubernetes infrastructure. Server utilisation and performance issues made scaling applications to an appropriate size and number of replicas challenging, and Kuberenetes' HPA scaling alone didn't solve these issues. So Deezer turned to custom metrics.
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Intuit Engineering's Approach to Simplifying Kubernetes Management with AI
Intuit recently talked about how they managed the complexities of monitoring and debugging Kubernetes clusters using Generative AI (GenAI). The GenAI experiments were conducted to streamline detection, debugging, and remediation processes.
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Feature Gates in Client-Go: Enhancing Control and Simplifying Feature Adoption in Kubernetes
Kubernetes has integrated feature gates into the client-go library, providing developers and administrators with more granular control over feature adoption within their Kubernetes environments. Kubernetes components utilize the client-go library for API interaction. This library is also widely adopted across the Kubernetes ecosystem for building extensions like controllers, tools, and webhooks.
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Kubernetes v1.31 Released: Enhanced Security, Stability, and AI/ML Support
The Kubernetes project has recently announced the release of version 1.31, codenamed "Elli". This version incorporates 45 enhancements, with 11 features reaching Stable status, 22 moving to Beta, and 12 new Alpha features introduced.
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Kubernetes Autoscaler Karpenter Reaches 1.0 Milestone
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released version 1.0 of Karpenter, an open-source Kubernetes cluster auto-scaling tool. This release marks Karpenter's graduation from beta status and introduces stable APIs and several new features. Karpenter, initially launched in November 2021, has evolved into a comprehensive Kubernetes-native node lifecycle manager.
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Figma Moves from ECS to Kubernetes to Benefit from the CNCF Ecosystem and Reduce Costs
Figma migrated its compute platform from AWS ECS to Kubernetes (EKS) in less than 12 months with minimal customer impact. The company decided to adopt Kubernetes to run its containerized workloads primarily to take advantage of the large ecosystem supported by the CNCF. Additionally, the move was dictated by pursuing cost savings, improved developer experience, and increased resiliency.
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Slack Develops Bedrock Operator for Kubernetes StatefulSets
Slack, the popular workplace communication platform, has developed a custom Kubernetes operator to address limitations in managing StatefulSet deployments. The Bedrock Rollout Operator offers improved control and features for deploying stateful applications in Kubernetes clusters.
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How the Adidas Platform Team Reduced the Cost of Running Kubernetes Clusters
The multi-pronged approach the adidas team took can be useful for platform engineering teams in many other organizations, as a recent CNCF report stated that Kubernetes has driven cloud spending up for 49% of respondents.
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InfoQ Dev Summit Boston: Optimizing Java Applications on Kubernetes - Beyond the Basics
At the InfoQ Dev Summit in Boston, Bruno Borges, who has been principal PM manager at Microsoft for over six years, shared insights on optimizing Java applications on Kubernetes. His session focused primarily on leveraging JVM ergonomics, understanding the impact of CPU throttling, and effectively managing garbage collection processes.
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Kubernetes 1.30 Released with Contextual Logging, Improved Performance, and Security
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released Kubernetes 1.30, named Uwubernetes in April. The release introduced features such as recursive read-only mounts, job completion policy, and fast recursive SELinux label change.
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Falco 0.38.0 Released with Enhanced Driver Selection, Configurations and Real-Time Monitoring
The maintainers of Falco announced its latest version: 0.38.0. This is the first release since its graduation within CNCF.
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Microsoft Launches Preview of Arm-Based Azure VMs Featuring Cobalt 100 Processor
The new Cobalt 100 Arm-based virtual machine (VM), based on Microsoft’s custom silicon series announced in November 2023, is currently in preview.
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Kubernetes Gateway API v1.1 Released: New Standard Features and Experimental Enhancements
The Kubernetes SIG Network announced the the version 1.1 of Gateway API. This update sees several key features moving to the Standard Channel (GA), including support for service mesh and GRPCRoute. Additionally, new experimental features such as session persistence and client certificate verification have been introduced.
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AI Lab Extension Allows Podman Desktop Users to Experiment with LLMs Locally
One year after its 1.0 release, Podman Desktop announced the Podman AI Lab plugin promising to help developers start working with Large Language Models on their machines. Podman AI Lab streamlines LLM workflows featuring generative AI exploration, built-in recipe catalogue, curated models, local model serving, OpenAI-compatible API, code snippets, and playground environments.
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Slack Optimizes Internal Development and Cost Efficiency with EKS and Karpenter
Slack has recently disclosed the architecture of its internal compute orchestration platform, epitomized by "Bedrock”, based on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Karpenter.