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StackPointCloud Enhances Istio and Kubernetes Functionality in Cloud-Native Management Platform
StackPointCloud, provider of a cloud-native management platform for Istio and Kubernetes, has added a series of tools to help enterprises deploy and use microservices and containers. Users can now manage Istio service meshes across Kubernetes clusters using their preferred cloud providers and StackPointCloud has partnered with Packet Host to help customers use ARM with their Kubernetes clusters.
Q&A on Istio, Microservices and Kubernetes with Lachie Evenson of Microsoft from Kubecon 2017
InfoQ caught up with Lachie Evenson, program manager at Microsoft, who delivered an introductory talk on the Istio platform at Kubecon. In addition to Istio, he talked about microservices, Kubernetes and how it's relevant to enterprise developers and architects.
Buoyant Releases New Kubernetes Service Mesh "Conduit" Written in Rust and Golang
Buoyant, the company behind the JVM-powered Linkerd service mesh, has released “Conduit”, a new experimental Kubernetes-specific service mesh, with the proxy data plane written in Rust and the control plane written in Golang. Conduit is not Linkerd 2.0. -- and targets a different use case -- and Buoyant has stated that they will continue to develop and provide commercial support for Linkerd.
Debugging Containerized Microservices: Idit Levine at QCon SF
At QCon San Francisco Idit Levine presented “Debugging Containerized Microservices”, and outlined the issues of debugging a distributed microservice-based system, and provided three potential approaches to overcome the inherent challenges. The talk also introduced a new open source microservices debugger that Levine is working on, Squash, which integrates with the VS Code IDE.
Buoyant Releases Version 1.0 of Their Service Mesh, Linkerd
Buoyant, a cloud-native software company, released version 1.0 of Linkerd, an open source “service mesh” project for cloud-native microservice-based applications. William Morgan, founder and CEO of Buoyant, spoke to InfoQ about this milestone.
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Adds Linkerd, gRPC, and CoreDNS to Growing Portfolio
Since the beginning of 2017 the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has added three new projects to their portfolio for hosting and stewardship, including: linkerd, a transparent proxy ‘service mesh’ that provides service discovery, failure handling and visibility; gRPC, a language agnostic high performance RPC framework; and CoreDNS, a fast and configurable cloud native DNS server.
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