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InfoQ: “Q&A with Kubernetes 1.20 Release Lead and VMware Engineer Jeremy Rickard”
InfoQ: “Q&A with Kubernetes 1.20 Release Lead and VMware Engineer Jeremy Rickard” December 9, 2020
CNCF and the Kubernetes Release Team recently announced the release of Kubernetes 1.20, which is one of the largest releases with a long list of enhancements.

SearchITOperations: “Linkerd service mesh’s steady updates outlast Istio’s flash”
SearchITOperations: “Linkerd service mesh’s steady updates outlast Istio’s flash” December 8, 2020
As service mesh adoption goes mainstream, early adopters of Linkerd say it allowed them to start small and grow in scale and sophistication as needed.

Kubernetes dropping Docker is not that big of a deal
Kubernetes dropping Docker is not that big of a deal December 3, 2020
It all started so quietly. Deep in the forthcoming Kubernetes 1.20 release notes, Kubernetes, everyone’s favorite container orchestrator, developers announced: “Docker support in the kubelet is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release.” You’d have thought...

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SD Times: “GitOps: It’s the cloud-native way” December 3, 2020
Most of the approaches introduced in the software development space are designed to make life easier for developers, but what about operations? DevOps was designed to make development and operation systems work better together, and as...

Builtin “Legacy Tech is Waking up to Cloud Native”
Builtin “Legacy Tech is Waking up to Cloud Native” November 30, 2020
utting-edge IT infrastructures aren’t just for nimble startups anymore. At this year’s Kubernetes Conference, Cloud Native Computing Foundation community members including Red Hat, NetApp and Rancher debuted solutions that will help organizations that aren’t cloud native...

Distributed Key-Value Store etcd Graduates at CNCF
Distributed Key-Value Store etcd Graduates at CNCF November 29, 2020
The CNCF announced the graduation of the etcd project – a distributed key-value store used by many open source projects and companies. Originally written at CoreOS, etcd was accepted into the CNCF incubation stage in 2018 and graduated...

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SD Times: “Open-Source Project of the Week: etcd” November 25, 2020
This week’s highlighted open-source project is etcd, which is a key-value store that provides a reliable way to store data needing to be accessed by a distributed system. 

Day Two Cloud 076: A Curated KubeCon And CloudNativeCon Roundup
Day Two Cloud 076: A Curated KubeCon And CloudNativeCon Roundup November 25, 2020
On today’s Day Two Cloud we review announcements and make our observations of the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon North America 2020 virtual event. There were at least fifty announcements released during these events, and we’re going to...

New perspectives on diversity, growth, security and hybrid storage shaped KubeCon 2020
New perspectives on diversity, growth, security and hybrid storage shaped KubeCon 2020 November 25, 2020
When Google partnered with the Linux Foundation to create the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2015, the new group launched with 18 members. At the time, the founders issued a call that they were open to adding more organizations.

Linux.com: “CNCF: Fostering The Evolution Of TiKV”
Linux.com: “CNCF: Fostering The Evolution Of TiKV” November 25, 2020
PingCAP had high hopes that its TiKV project would develop into a building block for the next generation of distributed systems by providing reliable high quality and practical storage foundation. To accomplish that, it decided to...