The Kubernetes community recently announced the release of Kubernetes 1.22. This release consists of 53 enhancements: 13 enhancements have graduated to stable, 24 enhancements are moving to beta, and 16 enhancements are entering alpha. Also, three features have been deprecated.

Major Themes

Server-side Apply graduates to GA

Server-side Apply is a new field ownership and object merge algorithm running on the Kubernetes API server. Server-side Apply helps users and controllers manage their resources via declarative configurations. It allows them to create and/or modify their objects declaratively, simply by sending their fully specified intent. After being in beta for a couple releases, Server-side Apply is now generally available.

Continue reading “Kubernetes 1.22: Reaching New Peaks” →

Rook, the graduated CNCF project, provides storage orchestrators for Kubernetes. “Rook turns distributed storage systems into self-managing, self-scaling, self-healing storage services. It automates the tasks of a storage administrator: deployment, bootstrapping, configuration, provisioning, scaling, upgrading, migration, disaster recovery, monitoring, and resource management.” (1)

This week version 1.7 was released. In this release many of the improvements were for internal implementation or CI automation, but they also have some new features primarily for the Ceph storage provider: i.e. the Ceph cluster helm chart to configure the following resources: (2)

Continue reading “Storage Enhancements – Rook v1.7 released” →

Cloud Foundry Foundation, home to many open source projects for simple development processes on Kubernetes, today kicked off the Cloud Foundry Virtual Summit. In the opening keynote Chip Childers, Executive Director of the CF Foundation announced the latest version of cf-for-k8s (v5):

Continue reading “Cf-for-k8s v5 released” →

23 European Cloud Technology Companies form the European Cloud Industrial Alliance

The European Cloud Industrial Alliance (EUCLIDIA) was formed last week by 23 independent European original technology manufacturers, for the promotion of digital independence and strategic autonomy. The founding members develop original software and hardware at the core of a wide range of cloud services: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, edge, vRAN, etc.

Continue reading “EUCLIDIA founded” →

Continue reading “HashiCorp delivers Terraform 1.0 Milestone Release for Multi-Cloud Provisioning” →

Exclusive global community, publicly available research and education are features of program

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining standards, certifications, and best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, today announced the CSA CxO Trust, a first-of-a-kind initiative that will bring together a community of C-suite executives to evolve cloud and cybersecurity understanding, knowledge, and needed solutions in response to enterprise challenges.

Continue reading “Cloud Security Alliance Announces CxO Trust Initiative to Elevate Cloud and Cybersecurity Knowledge Among Executives” →

The Climate Decade is upon us. Our collective actions over the next 10 years will be critical in defining the future trajectory of our planet. With a renewed societal focus on sustainability and climate change over the past several years, it’s become increasingly clear we must drastically reduce our carbon emissions.

Continue reading “Zero Carbon Committed Initiative to Drive Global Decarbonization Efforts” →

Continue reading “Confluent Launches Confluent for Kubernetes, the Fastest Path to Building a Private Cloud Apache Kafka Service for Data in Motion” →

HAProxy Technologies has released version 1.6 of the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller, adding a number of new features including frontend configuration snippets, custom routing and TLS client certificate authentication.

Continue reading “HAProxy adds configuration flexibility in Kubernetes Ingress Controller 1.6” →

From a cleaner freight train to an automated beehive, a way to recycle fabric, and other bold, new technologies, the 5th annual awards honor the products, concepts, companies, policies, and designs that are pursuing innovation for the good of society and the planet.

The winners of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards were announced today, honoring the businesses, policies, projects, and concepts that are actively engaged and deeply committed to pursuing innovation when it comes to solving health and climate crises, social injustice, or economic inequality.

Continue reading “Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s Inclusive Naming Initiative Selected as Honorable Mention in the Software Category of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards” →