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Harbor 1.8 Includes OIDC Integration and Replication Enhancements
The latest version of Harbor, 1.8, was recently released. Harbor is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project that provides a cloud-native registry for storing, signing, and scanning container images. This release includes an OpenID Connect integration, the addition of robot accounts, and improvements to the replication features, among other improvements.
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Migrating from Self-Managed Kubernetes to AWS EKS Using Terraform at Blue Matador
Blue Matador migrated their self-managed Kubernetes cluster to AWS EKS to take advantage of a better security model, a managed control plane, and lesser costs, using Terraform to automate the setup.
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Percona XtraDB and MongoDB Operators for Kubernetes
Percona announced the release of Percona Kubernetes Operator for XtraDB and Percona Server for MongoDB. Percona, a database software company, designed the XtraDB and MongoDB operators to remove the burden of repetitive tasks and provide consistency and reliability in a Kubernetes environment.
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GitLab 11.11 Brings Multiple Assignees for Merge Requests, Windows Container Executor, and More
GitLab 11.11, recently released, brings Multiple Assignees for Merge Requests, Windows Container Executor for GitLab Runners, Guest Access to Releases, instance-level Kubernetes cluster, and more.
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Chaos Engineering Kubernetes with the Litmus Framework
Litmus is an open source chaos engineering framework for Kubernetes environments running stateful applications. Created by MayaData, Litmus enables users to run test suites, capture logs, generate reports, and perform chaos experiments.
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Google Kubernetes Engine Enhancements: Upgrade Channels, Windows Container Support and Stackdriver
At the recent KubeCon EU in Barcelona, Google announced that it will offer three new release channels for its Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE): Rapid, Regular, and Stable. With these channels, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) users can choose whether they want the freshest release or the most stable one — or quickly evaluate the latest updates in a development environment.
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CircleCI Adds Additional Partner Integrations to Support Kubernetes Workloads
CircleCI has announced new partner integrations as part of their Technology Partner program. CircleCI previously introduced a package management solution called Orbs. Orbs bundle common CI/CD tasks into reusable, shareable packages. With this announcement, CircleCI has added partner-supported orbs for AWS, Azure, VMware, Red Hat, Kublr and Helm.
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Kubernetes Future: VMs, Containers, or Hypervisor?
In competing visions of the future of Kubernetes, Paul Czarkowski, principal technologist at Pivotal, predicts that VMs will replace containers, and Joe Fernandes, a VP at Red Hat, considers that VMs usage is evolving for Kubernetes rather than replacing containers. In addition, Chris Short, Red Hat's principal product marketing manager, said that Kubernetes is close to replacing the hypervisor.
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CRI-O: An Open Source Container Runtime for Kubernetes
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted CRI-O as an incubation-level hosted project on April 8th. CRI-O, created by Red Hat, is an Open Container Initiative container runtime for Kubernetes that provides an alternative to Docker.
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Q&A with Microsoft's Brendan Burns about GA of OpenShift on Azure
The general availability (GA) of OpenShift on Azure was included alongside several other Kubernetes-related announcements at Microsoft Build 2019 and Red Hat Summit 2019, which recently concluded in Seattle and Boston, concurrently. InfoQ caught up with Brendan Burns, a co-founder of the Kubernetes platform and a distinguished engineer at Microsoft, regarding the announcement.
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Canonical Brings Infrastructure Offerings Under One Roof
Canonical has released a consolidated offering for open source infrastructure, called Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure (UA-I), covering its existing services like OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph and Swift. The solution offers three levels of support - Essential, Standard and Advanced - with the per-node pricing remaining uniform regardless of the software running on it.
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Kuberhealthy: Synthetic Testing for Kubernetes Clusters
Kuberhealthy, an open source solution developed by Comcast, detects Kubernetes issues by performing synthetic tests within Kubernetes clusters and reports metrics to monitoring systems such as Prometheus.
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Q&A with Google VP Eyal Manor about Anthos, Kubernetes, and Multicloud
InfoQ caught up with Eyal Manor, VP of product and engineering, Google Cloud, as a follow-on to his appearance at the Google Next keynote to deep dive into the Anthos architecture.
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Google Releases Anthos, a Hybrid Cloud Platform, to General Availability
Recently, Google announced on their blog the general availability of Anthos, a service for hybrid cloud and workload management that runs on the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Furthermore, besides running on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), it also allows customers to manage workloads running on third-party clouds like AWS and Azure.
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Reconciling Kubernetes and PCI DSS for a Modern and Compliant Payment System
Ana Calin, systems engineer at Paybase, gave an experience report at QCon London [slides PDF] on how the end-to-end payments service provider solution managed to achieve PCI DSS level 1 compliance (the highest) with 50+ Node.js microservices running on Google Cloud Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and using Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and Helm for service deployment.
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