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SearchITOperations: “KubeCon 2020 preview: Session guide for Kubernetes beginners”
SearchITOperations: “KubeCon 2020 preview: Session guide for Kubernetes beginners” October 27, 2020
While Kubernetes is a relatively young technology, reaching version 1.0 in 2015, many IT organizations run large production workloads with mature Kubernetes and container deployments. For these advanced adopters, the information shared at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon...

SearchITOperations: “KubeCon 2020 preview: Session guide for Kubernetes beginners”
SearchITOperations: “KubeCon 2020 preview: Session guide for Kubernetes beginners” October 27, 2020
With more than a dozen technical tracks and hundreds of sessions, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon can prove daunting to a Kubernetes beginner. But as a low-cost virtual event in 2020, the conference presents a unique opportunity for...

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TechRepublic: “Open source: Why naiveté might be the key to success” October 23, 2020
In our efforts to uncover the keys to open source success, we may be overlooking the most important attribute of all: Profound naïveté. Talk to Dries Buytaert (Drupal) or Daniel Stenberg (cURL) or [insert name of...

The Register: “Ever wondered what exactly is going on in those containers? OpenTelemetry edges toward GA, emits tracing specification release candidate”
The Register: “Ever wondered what exactly is going on in those containers? OpenTelemetry edges toward GA, emits tracing specification release candidate” October 22, 2020
The OpenTelemetry community has taken another step toward General Availability with the first release candidate of the tracing specification. It’s quite the milestone for the project, which modestly describes itself as the second most active (behind...

InfoQ: “Q/A with Creator of Envoy and Lyft Engineer Matt Klein”
InfoQ: “Q/A with Creator of Envoy and Lyft Engineer Matt Klein” October 14, 2020
EnvoyCon 2020 is scheduled as a virtual event this week. Envoy which was the third project to graduate from CNCF behind Kubernetes and Prometheus was originally created at Lyft. It’s a high performant edge/middle/service proxy well...

ProgrammableWeb: “Understanding the Essentials of gRPC”
ProgrammableWeb: “Understanding the Essentials of gRPC” October 14, 2020
In this installment, we’re going to take a more detailed look at gRPC. We’re going to briefly review the basics we discussed prior. We’re going to cover the essentials of gRPC architecture in terms of specification...

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Container Journal: “CNCF Graduates Rook to Automate Kubernetes Storage Tasks” October 13, 2020
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has graduated Rook, an open source storage orchestrator for Kubernetes clusters, at a time when the number of stateful applications being built and deployed using containers is starting to increase....

DevOps.com: “OpenTelemetry and the Future of Monitoring Instrumentation”
DevOps.com: “OpenTelemetry and the Future of Monitoring Instrumentation” October 13, 2020
The project, OpenTelemetry, was officially started in May 2019. It is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project and came out of the merger of the OpenCensus and OpenTracing projects. They’ve since expanded their goal to...

The New Stack: “The Most Popular Cloud Native Storage Solutions”
The New Stack: “The Most Popular Cloud Native Storage Solutions” October 12, 2020
Storage is one of the most critical components of a Containers-as-a-Service platform. Container-native storage exposes the underlying storage services to containers and microservices. Like software-defined storage, it aggregates and pools storage resources from disparate mediums. Container-native...

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DevClass: “What’s the point: Rook, Kong, Docker Hub, Elixir, Sumo Logic, and Sonatype” October 9, 2020
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has gained another graduate project. Accepted into the CNCF in 2018, storage project Rook is now mature enough to fall into one category with cloud native bedrocks Kubernetes and Prometheus.