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Distributed SQL Database NuoDB 4.0 Supports Kubernetes Operator and Indexing Improvements
Distributed SQL database NuoDB 4.0 supports Kubernetes Operator and indexing improvements. NuoDB released the latest version of the database that also supports Azure and Google Cloud Platform certification.
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HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure: The First Fully Managed Consul Offering
During the HashiConf keynote, HashiCorp announced HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure. Consequently, customers can now provision HCS natively through the Azure Marketplace directly into their Azure subscription, while HashiCorp takes care of maintenance and operations of the service.
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Helm as a Package Manager for Kubernetes: Q&A with Helm Founder Matt Butcher
InfoQ caught up with Matt Butcher, the organizer for the Helm Summit in Amsterdam, and explored Helm's growth and its roadmap. He talked about the history of Helm, how its design was influenced by other package managers, how it's helping the Kubernetes community, its tremendous growth, and some of the security challenges being resolved.
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Google Releases Cloud Dataproc for Kubernetes in Alpha
Google Cloud Dataproc is an open-source data and analytic processing service based on Hadoop and Spark. Google has recently announced the alpha availability of Cloud Dataproc for Kubernetes, which provides customers with a more efficient method to process data across platforms.
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Introducing Maesh: A Service Mesh for Kubernetes
On September 4th, 2019, Containous, a cloud infrastructure software provider, released Maesh, an open-source service mesh written in Golang and built on top of the reverse proxy and load balancer Traefik. Maesh promises to provide a lightweight service mesh solution that is easy to get started with and to roll out across a microservice application.
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Pinterest’s Journey to a Kubernetes Platform
Pinterest software engineers have revealed the custom tools and resources they introduced in the company's adoption of Kubernetes.
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Amazon Releases Container Monitoring for Amazon ECS, EKS, and Kubernetes via CloudWatch
Recently, Amazon announced that customers can now monitor, isolate, and diagnose their containerized applications and microservices environments using Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights. Cloud Insights is a part of Amazon CloudWatch, a fully-managed monitoring and observability service in AWS targeted for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers.
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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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ApacheCon 2019 Keynote: Google Cloud Enhances Big-Data Processing with Kubernetes
At ApacheCon North America, Christopher Crosbie gave a keynote talk title "Yet Another Resource Negotiator for Big Data? How Google Cloud is Enhancing Data Lake Processing with Kubernetes." He highlighted Google's efforts to make Apache big-data software "cloud native" by developing open-source Kubernetes Operators to provide control planes for running Apache software in a Kubernetes cluster.
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Lightbend Release CloudState, Providing a Spec for Managing "Serverless" State and a RI with Knative
Lightbend has recently announced CloudState. CloudState is the first open source serverless framework designed to bring stateful management on Knative/Kubernetes stack.
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Kubernetes Policy Enforcement with Open Policy Agent Gatekeeper
The latest release of the Kubernetes Policy Controller Gatekeeper takes greater advantage of the CNCF project Open Policy Agent to offer users the ability to declare policies, share constraint templates, and audit resources for policy violations.
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GitLab 12.2 Supports Complex Dependencies for CI Tasks and Cross-Project Merge Requests
GitLab's latest release aims to enable complex continuous integration (CI) pipelines, team collaboration, and dependencies management across projects. Furthermore, GitLab 12.2 adds new push options for merge requests, and uses environment-specific Kubernetes namespaces to enable sharing the same cluster across multiple project environments.
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Contributing to the Kubernetes Community: Getting Started Q&A with Contributor Nikhita Raghunath
InfoQ caught up with Nikhita Raghunath, a contributor to the Kubernetes community. She outlines some quick tips or tricks especially for the impatient to get started and to move up the contributor ladder. She talks about the organization of the community, the tools, etc. to enable a better understanding of how and where to contribute.
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Octant: Local and Real-Time Dashboard for Kubernetes Workloads
VMware has open-sourced Octant, a tool to help developers understand how their applications are running in a Kubernetes cluster. Developers can graphically visualize Kubernetes objects dependencies, forward local ports to a running pod, inspect pod logs, and navigate through different clusters. Moreover, users can extend Octant’s capabilities by installing or authoring a plugin.
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CloudBees Releases Official Jenkins X Distribution
CloudBees has released its official Jenkins X distribution, a CI/CD tool for cloud-native Kubernetes applications based on the GitOps approach. CloudBees will take the essential features from the open-source code with a monthly release cadence. This initial release supports GKE, pipelines, vault integration, and preview environments; additional features like DevPods will come in a future version.
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