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  • Google's Managed Continuous Delivery Service for Kubernetes Moves to GA

    Google has announced the GA release of Google Cloud Deploy, their managed continuous delivery service for Google Kubernetes Engine. The service provides declarative builds that persist with a given release, support for connecting external workflows, and detailed security and auditing controls

  • HashiCorp Waypoint Adds Triggers and External Data Fetching

    HashiCorp has released version 0.7 of Waypoint, their open-source application deployment tool. This release presents a number of redesigns to the user interface, the introduction of scripting and continuous integration lifecycle operations via triggers, external data fetching, and scoping of configurations to specific workspaces.

  • Qovery: a Heroku for Almost Any Cloud Provider?

    Qovery started on a journey to build a developer’s productivity tool which would allow scaling companies to keep up the rapid pace of delivery, without sacrificing quality or stability. One way is by combining the simplicity and “magic” of a PaaS, like Heroku, with IaaS’ flexibility. In a conversation with InfoQ, the CEO and founder, Romaric Philogene, provided more insights into their journey.

  • Safe and Fast Deploys at Planet Scale: QCon Plus Q&A

    Uber has automated the deployment of services using a hybrid cloud model. All services are deployed using the same rollout techniques and workflows, ensuring safe deployment and mitigation of any issues. Abstracting away the differences between clouds supports engineers in building services that run on any platform.

  • How Amazon Teams Do Continuous Delivery

    An AWS engineer recently wrote about how Amazon deployment pipelines look and what practices they follow to deploy continuously to production. A pipeline validates changes in multiple environments running unit and integration tests, and use stages to stagger deployments to production. Teams don't actively examine deployments as the pipeline monitors key metrics and can rollback if needed.

  • Amazon Releases CLI v2, Includes SSO and Interactive Usability Features

    In a recent blog post, Amazon announced the general availability (GA) of AWS CLI (Command Line Interface) v2. Within this version of the CLI, features such as AWS Single Sign-On (SSO), interactive wizards, server-side auto completion and auto prompts are included. In addition, having Python installed is no longer a pre-requisite and the CLI is supported on Windows, Linux and macOS.

  • Preventing Inadvertent Changes, Amazon Adds Change Calendar to AWS Systems Manager

    In a recent blog post, Amazon announced a new capability has been added to AWS Systems Manager called Change Calendar. This feature allows administrators to create change windows that either block or enable changes to be made, within a specific time frame, and is beneficial to organizations that have deployment freezes such as during the holidays or key business events.

  • Heroku's Journey to Automated Continuous Deployment

    Heroku's engineering team wrote about their journey from manual deployments to automated continuous deployments for Heroku Runtime, their managed environment for applications. They achieved this using Heroku primitives and a custom deployer tool.

  • Reducing the Friction in Multi-Cloud Deployments, Pulumi Launches 1.0 Platform

    In a recent blog post, Pulumi has announced the release of Pulumi 1.0, an Infrastructure as Code platform that allows organizations to reduce the challenges associated with managing multiple cloud deployments. Their solution includes using consistent tooling based on popular programming languages like TypeScript, JavaScript, Python and Go.

  • Amazon Releases a Preview of the New AWS Tools for PowerShell

    In a recent blog post, Amazon announced it would release a preview of refactored AWS Tools for PowerShell, allowing developers and administrators to manage their AWS services from the PowerShell scripting environment.

  • 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.

  • Improving Deployment Safety at Airbnb with Pipelines

    Alexander Katz, a software engineering intern at Airbnb, recently wrote about improving deployment safety with the introduction of deployment pipelines to Deployboard. The inhouse deployment service at Airbnb, Deployboard, handles thousands of deploys daily for the thousands of services that support Airbnb’s product.

  • Azure Machine Learning Services Now Generally Available

    Microsoft has announced the general availability of the Azure Machine Learning service. Azure Machine Learning automates machine learning to make it easier to build, train and deploy models. The service is generally available now, with pricing to go into effect February 1, 2019.

  • Patterns and Practices for Cloud Native Continuous Delivery

    Christian Deger, chief architect at RIO – a Brand of Volkswagen Truck & Bus, recently shared a set of patterns and practices for implementing cloud native continuous delivery at the Continuous Lifecycle Conference in London.

  • Ankyra Presents “Escape”, a Release Automation Tool That Manages Platforms as Logical Components

    Over the last ten years there has been increased focus on infrastructure as code (IaC) tooling, primarily driven by the rise of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and API-driven infrastructure. InfoQ discussed the challenges of homogenising this tooling with Bart Spaans, founder of Ankyra, who is an expert in the domain of infrastructure and release engineering.

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