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Figma Moves from ECS to Kubernetes to Benefit from the CNCF Ecosystem and Reduce Costs
Figma migrated its compute platform from AWS ECS to Kubernetes (EKS) in less than 12 months with minimal customer impact. The company decided to adopt Kubernetes to run its containerized workloads primarily to take advantage of the large ecosystem supported by the CNCF. Additionally, the move was dictated by pursuing cost savings, improved developer experience, and increased resiliency.
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Kubernetes 1.30 Released with Contextual Logging, Improved Performance, and Security
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released Kubernetes 1.30, named Uwubernetes in April. The release introduced features such as recursive read-only mounts, job completion policy, and fast recursive SELinux label change.
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Radius is Now a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox Project
The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team recently announced the approval of Radius as a Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project. Radius is a cloud-native, cloud-agnostic application platform that the CNCF has recognized as having the potential to contribute to the cloud-native ecosystem.
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Cloud Native Computing Foundation Graduation of CloudEvents: Q&A with Clemens Vasters
Earlier this year, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that CloudEvents had graduated. CloudEvents is a specification designed to expose event metadata in a standardized manner, which helps to ensure interoperability across platforms, services, and systems.
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KubeCon EU Highlights: CloudEvents & Falco Graduate, Beta Tetragon , Linkerd Meshes Legacy Systems
As highlighted at the recent KubeCon and CNCF EU conference, the count of CNCF graduated projects has reached twenty-six, as Cloud Events and Falco joined the “boring, but safe project list”. Linkerd added mesh extended capabilities for legacy systems; in this way, you can extend the governance and security policies of your mesh. The Beta version of Cilium Tetragon is deployed by early adopters.
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CNCF Incubates Strimzi to Simplify Kafka on Kubernetes
The Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has approved Strimzi as an incubating project to streamline the deployment of Apache Kafka on Kubernetes. Strimzi provides a Kubernetes-native way to interact with Kafka through a set of operators that extend the Kubernetes API making it easier to configure, deploy, and operate Kafka on Kubernetes.
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Falco, Cloud-Native Security Tool for Kubernetes, Graduates from CNCF
CNCF announced the graduation of Falco, a tool designed for Linux systems and a de facto Kubernetes threat-detection engine. The project successfully met all graduation requirements, including undergoing the due diligence process, completing a third-party security audit, and obtaining the software licensing approvals.
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CNCF Survey: Half of Organizations Spend More with Kubernetes, Mostly Due to Overprovisioning
CNCF published the results of its latest microsurvey report on cloud-native FinOps and cloud financial management (CFM). Kubernetes has driven cloud spending up for 49% of respondents, while 28% stated their costs remain unchanged and 24% saved after migrating to Kubernetes. Respondents listed overprovisioning, lack of awareness and responsibility, and sprawl as the main factors for overspending.
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Grab Improves Kafka on Kubernetes Fault Tolerance with Strimzi, AWS AddOns and EBS
Grab updated its Kafka on Kubernetes setup to improve fault tolerance and completely eliminate human intervention in case of unexpected Kafka broker terminations. To address the shortcomings of the initial design, the team integrated with AWS Node Termination Handler (NTH), used the Load Balancer Controller for target group mapping, and switched to ELB volumes for storage.
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Kubernetes 1.29 Released with KMS V2 Improvements and nftables Support
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released Kubernetes 1.29 named Mandala last month. The latest release introduces new features such as load balancer IP mode for services, mutable pod resources for Windows containers, and nftables for the kube-proxy.
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AppDeveloperCon Offers Deep Dives into Developer-Focused CNCF Projects
Monday the 6th of November in Chicago Illinois, Application Developer Con was held during the co-located events at KubeCon North America 2023. The full day event focused on cloud native developers and featured talks on CNCF projects (such as OpenFGA, Dapr, TestContainers, and OpenFeature), eventing, patterns like choreography/orchestration, and ways of working in today’s cloud native environments.
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Diagrid Launches Catalyst, a Serverless, Fully-Managed Dapr Offering
Today Diagrid announced the launch of a managed Dapr offering, the industry's first set of APIs focused on eliminating fragmentation when building distributed applications.
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Microsoft Announces Radius: a New Open Application Platform for the Cloud
Microsoft has recently announced Radius, a cloud-native application platform designed to facilitate collaboration between developers and platform engineers who assist them in delivering and managing cloud-native applications. This platform ensures that these applications adhere to corporate standards for cost-efficiency, operational efficiency, and security as the default approach.
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CRI-O Graduates from CNCF, Sees Increased Adoption in Cloud Native Environments
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced the graduation of the CRI-O project which provides a secure, performant, and stable Container Runtime Interface (CRI) implementation for kubelet in Kubernetes production environments. The project has been adopted by seven new organizations, released 11 new minor versions, and had more than 4,000 commits to the main branch.
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LF Asia & CNCF Kick off KubeCon+CloudNativeCon+Open Source Summit China 2023
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2023 kicked off this week in Shanghai. It’s the premier event for developers, technologists, and technology leaders in Asia concerning all things Open Source, Kubernetes, and Cloud Native. The event attracted over 2000 attendees and 20 sponsors and included 150 sessions.