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HashiCorp Consul Introduces New Sidecar Model for Kubernetes Deployments
HashiCorp has released Consul 1.14, adding new features that simplify deployments and improve the resiliency of their service mesh platform. The release includes Consul Dataplane, an improved architecture for deploying onto Kubernetes. The cluster peering model that was introduced as beta in 1.13 has been moved into full general availability.
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CNCF Accepts Istio as an Incubating Project
The CNCF recently announced that it has voted to accept Istio as an incubating project. Initially developed by Google and IBM alongside the Lyft team, Istio is the most widely adopted service mesh. The Istio steering committee shared the announcement in a blog post, reflecting on Istio’s journey from 2016.
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Atlassian Exceeds 99.9999% of Availability Using Sidecars and Highly Fault-Tolerant Design
Atlassian recently published how it exceeded 99.9999% of availability with its Tenant Context Service. Atlassian achieved this high availability by implementing highly-autonomous client sidecars, able to proactively shield themselves from complete AWS region failures. Sidecars query multiple services concurrently to accomplish this goal and ensure that requests are entirely isolated internally.
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HashiCorp Consul on Amazon ECS Adds Development Kit and Support for High Traffic Loads
HashiCorp has announced the release of version 0.3 of their Consul on Amazon ECS service. The release includes support for additional configuration options, deployment without Terraform, and confirmed support for high traffic loads. They have also released, in partnership with AWS, a AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to support using Consul on Amazon ECS.
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HashiCorp Consul API Gateway Adds TCPRoute Support and Installation via Helm Chart
HashiCorp has moved their Consul API Gateway into beta release. The release adds a number of new features to their Consul Service Mesh ingress solution including support for TCPRoute, installation via Helm Chart, and TLS settings per listener.
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Solo.io Open Sources BumbleBee to Make eBPF Development Easier
Solo.io recently announced an open-source project called BumbleBee, which aims to simplify eBPF application development through auto-generated templates and boilerplate files.
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eBPF and Wasm: Exploring the Future of the Service Mesh Data Plane
With the advancement of lightweight runtimes, such as eBPF and WebAssembly (WASM), we are now seeing a new generation of service mesh data plane solutions that are lighter, safer, and faster.
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Dapr Joins CNCF Incubator: Q&A with Yaron Schneider
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) recently announced that it accepted the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) as a CNCF incubating project. This statement follows an earlier announcement by Dapr, announcing the formation of the Dapr project's Steering and Technical Committee (STC).
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Envoy Proxy is Generally Available on Windows
The CNCF-graduated project Envoy Proxy was recently announced as generally available on Windows. Starting with version 1.18.3, engineers can use the Envoy proxy on Windows for production workloads.
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InfoQ Live August 17th: Deep-Dive in Cloud Native, CI/CD, Service Mesh, and More
Practically every development team would benefit from building and running applications that use the advantages of the cloud computing delivery model. This August 17th at InfoQ Live, software leaders dive into topics such as service mesh, CI/CD, cloud native best practices and pitfalls, and more. Join them and book your spot now for just $19.95.
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Istio 1.10: Q&A with Release Manager Sam Naser
Istio launched version 1.10 last month. Key new features include discovery selectors, revision tags, and sidecar networking changes to improve day-two operations for Istio users.
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Alibaba Cloud Uses Dapr to Support Its Business Growth
In a recent blog post, Sky Ao, a staff engineer at Alibaba Cloud, details how Alibaba Cloud uses the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) to support its business growth. As Alibaba's business rapidly grows while also purchasing other companies, a clear need to support multiple programming languages across varying cloud environments rises. To support this need, Alibaba chose to use Dapr.
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Dropbox Reveals Atlas - a Managed Service Orchestration Platform
In a recent blog post, Dropbox revealed Atlas, a platform whose aim is to provide various benefits of a Service Oriented Architecture while minimizing the operational cost of owning a service. Atlas' goal is to support small, self-contained functionality, saving product teams the overhead of managing a full-blown service, including capacity planning, alert setup, etc.
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Istio 1.8 Announces Smart DNS Proxy, Support for Helm 3
Istio recently announced the release of Istio 1.8. The fourth and final release for the open-source service mesh platform in 2020, this release focused on support for multi-cluster meshes and virtual machine (VM) workloads.
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HashiCorp Enhances Consul with Topology Maps and Improved Kubernetes Integrations
Hashicorp has announced the beta release of Consul 1.9, adding new features to their service mesh platform. This release includes enhancements to the intentions model to support Layer 7 constructs, new visualizations for verifying configurations, and custom resources for Kubernetes.