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Q&A with the Kismatic Team: The Past, Present and Future of Kubernetes
InfoQ recently sat down with Joseph Jacks and Patrick Reilly from Kismatic Inc, a company offering enterprise Kubernetes support, and asked about their thoughts on the recent Kubernetes v1.0 launch, the history of the project, and how this container orchestration platform may impact the future of microservice deployment.
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Q&A with Bryan Cantrill: Running Containers on Bare Metal with Triton
InfoQ recently sat down with Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Joyent, and asked about his thoughts on container technology, running Docker on bare metal, and how Joyent is driving technical innovation within this space through the development of their Triton platform.
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CoreOS Inc, Releases 'Tectonic Preview' Commercial Kubernetes v1 Platform
CoreOS Inc, have released Tectonic Preview, a commercial container infrastructure offering that supports the recently released Kubernetes v1.0, CoreOS, Docker and rkt. CoreOS also announced that the inaugural 'Tectonic Summit' conference will be run within New York in December.
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Kubernetes v1 Released, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation Formed
Google have released Kubernetes v1, a production-ready version of the open source container orchestration system. The Linux Foundation, in combination with multiple industry partners, have also announced the formation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which aims to advance the state-of-the-art for building cloud and container native applications.
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Kubernetes Codebase Tagged v1.0.0. in Preparation for Public Release
The codebase for Google’s Kubernetes open source orchestration system for Docker containers has been tagged v1.0.0 ready for the initial ‘general availability’ public release of the platform at OSCON next week on 21st July.
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Mesosphere Releases SDK for Mesos-Powered 'Datacenter Operating System'
Mesosphere Inc, have released the Mesosphere software development kit (SDK) for creating datacenter services that will run on their Mesos-powered Datacenter Operating System (DCOS). The Mesosphere blog states that the SDK currently supports Java, Go and Python.
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Docker's Testing Infrastructure
Jessie Frazelle, member of Docker's core team, is responsible for Docker's testing infrastructure. Frazelle described Docker's build workflows for both the master branch and pull requests as well as the various tools that are part of the testing infrastructure. Jenkins, Consul and nsq are all key components of the testing infrastructure, working together with Docker's custom tools.
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HashiCorp Publicly Release Atlas, a Version Control System for Infrastructure
HashiCorp have publicly released Atlas, a commercial platform that unites their open source tools for development and operations to create a version control system for infrastructure management. Atlas integrates HashiCorp’s Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, and Consul tooling, with the primary goal of promoting ‘automation, audit and collaboration on infrastructure changes’ across the modern datacenter.
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Flocker v1.0 Provides Docker Volume Migration and Storage Abstraction
At the London Microservice User Group July meetup, Kai Davenport presented a live demonstration of ClusterHQ’s Flocker v1.0 container data volume manager tool migrating a Docker storage volume between multiple containers running within a Docker Swarm.
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Crossing the Chasm of Container Adoption in Production
Only 38% of IT professionals use containers in production environments, according to a recent survey. ClusterHQ, which ran the survey of the current state of container usage and adoption, also concludes that 73% of respondents are running containers in a VM environment.
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Docker 1.7 and Updated Toolchain Released at DockerCon 2015
Docker Inc, have released a new version of their core container runtime, Docker Engine 1.7.0, and updated versions of the supporting toolchain, Docker Compose 1.3, Docker Swarm 0.3 and Docker Machine 0.3. Highlights include the availability of a nightly built ‘Docker experimental binary’ that currently contains a new networking and plugin system, and Apache Mesos integration with Docker Swarm.
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Q&A with Mitchell Hashimoto: Orchestration with Consul and Terraform
At QCon New York 2015, Mitchell Hashimoto discussed how tools such as a HashiCorp’s Terraform and Consul could be utilised to orchestrate infrastructure provisioning and application lifecycle management of cloud and container-based applications, with the ultimate goal of safely delivering software systems at scale.
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InfoQ China Launches Container Technology Club
A successful CNUT closed-door meeting, a Container Technology Club organized by InfoQ, was held in the Beijing Babbitt Internet-themed tea house on 16th June, 2015
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Monitoring Microservices and Containers: A Challenge by Adrian Cockcroft
At GlueCon 2015, Adrian Cockcroft presented a list of rules for monitoring microservice and container-based applications. In addition to these guidelines, Cockcroft also highlighted a series of challenges for monitoring cloud-native container-based systems, and introduced his ‘Spigo/simianviz’ microservice simulation and visualisation tool.
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RedHat Microservices Architecture Developer Day London
Last week, RedHat hosted a "Microservices Architecture Developer Day" in London, and presented a set of technologies and patterns that can be used to create microservice-based applications using open-source solutions like Kubernetes, Docker, Fabric8 and Maven. Read on for more details about the day, including links to the presentations and demo videos.