ELASTIC CLOUD ON KUBERNETES: AUTOMATING ELASTICSEARCH AND KIBANA ON KUBERNETES
Elasticsearch, following the emergence of Kubernetes as the de facto standard for orchestrating containers, launches Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK). Let’s have a look at what ECK brings to the Kubernetes ecosystem. The Elasticsearch team takes the next steptowards their commitment to make it easier for users to deploy and operate Elastic products and solutions in Kubernetes environments. Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) is built using the Kubernetes Operator pattern, installs into your Kubernetes cluster and does more than just simplifying the task of deploying Elasticsearch and Kibana on Kubernetes.
Read moreTHE CALCULATOR THAT HELPED LAND MEN ON THE MOON
Introduced at a Business Equipment Manufacturers Association show in New York in October 1965, this programmable desktop calculator provedan immediate success. Also known as the P101 or the Perottina (after the chief engineer who designed it, Pier Giorgio Perotto), it eventually sold more than 40,000 units, primarily in the United States but also in Europe. NASA bought a number of P101s, which were used by engineers working on the 1969 Apollo11 moon landing.
Read moreANNOUNCING SERVICE MESH INTERFACE (SMI) SUPPORT AND COLLABORATION
Today we announced that Solo.io is a launch partner of the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification in collaboration with Microsoft, Bouyant and Hashicorp with support across the cloud-native ecosystem. As part of today’s announcement, the SuperGloo project and The Service Mesh Hub are the first reference implementations of SMI available today. The Service Mesh Interface (SMI) is a specification for service meshes that run on Kubernetes and defines a common standard that can be implemented by a variety of providers.
Read moreATOM POWER IS LAUNCHING THE ERA OF DIGITAL CIRCUIT BREAKERS
Circuit breakers have been mechanical switches for 140 years. Now Atom Power is launching the first UL safety-certified digital circuit breaker panel combined with smart software and connectivity that could help monitor and control energy use of buildings remotely. In the dark, dank depths of your home basement hangs a drab gray box that guards the building’s electrical circuits. The circuit breakers inside switch off current flow when there is risk of an overload or short circuit, keeping you safe from fires or electrocution. It’s a critical job, and one that breakers have been doing with a fairly simple, 140-year-old electromechanical technology. But circuit breakers are about to get a digital overhaul.
Read moreRELEASING PYTHIA FOR VISION AND LANGUAGE MULTIMODAL AI MODELS
Pythia is a deep learning framework that supports multitasking in the vision and language domain. Built on our open-source PyTorch framework, the modular, plug-and-play design enables researchers to quickly build, reproduce, and benchmark AI models. Pythia is designed for vision and language tasks, such as answering questions related to visual data and automatically generating image captions. Pythia incorporates elements of our winning entries in recent AI competitions (the VQA Challenge 2018 and Vizwiz Challenge 2018). Features include reference implementations to show how previous state-of-the-art models achieved related benchmark results and to quickly gauge the performance of new models. In addition to multitasking, Pythia also supports distributed training and a variety of datasets, as well as custom losses, metrics, scheduling, and optimizers.
Read moreHASHICORP CONSUL SUPPORTS MICROSOFT’S NEW SERVICE MESH INTERFACE
Today at KubeCon EU in Barcelona, Microsoft introduced a new specification, the Service Mesh Interface (SMI), for implementing service mesh providers into Kubernetes environments. The Service Mesh Interface (SMI) is a specification for service meshes that run on Kubernetes. It defines a common standard that can be implemented by a variety of providers. This allows for both standardization for end-users and innovation by service mesh providers. SMI enables flexibility and interoperability. We partnered with Microsoft to support the creation of this controller and this blog will explain how it can be used to set HashiCorp Consul Connect intentions within Kubernetes clusters.
Read moreTHE SECRET LIFE OF DNS PACKETS: INVESTIGATING COMPLEX NETWORKS
The secret life of DNS packets: investigating complex networks. Source: stripe.com
INTRODUCING ARGO ROLLOUTS
Less than a year ago, we started building Argo CD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. The project has been growing in popularity, with many developers and DevOps engineers adopting it. A huge thanks to our awesome community of contributors and users! Today, we are excited to announce Argo Rollouts a new, Kubernetes-native, open source project brought to you by the Argo community and Intuit to provide missing deployment strategies like Blue/Green and Canary in a Kubernetes native and GitOps friendly manner. Argo Rollouts augments the functionality of the Kubernetes Deployment resource with additional deployment strategies. Argo Rollouts fills the need for the missing industry standard deployment strategies like Canary and Blue Green in Kubernetes.
Read moreANNOUNCING TERRAFORM 0.12
Terraform 0.12 is a major update that includes dozens of improvements and features spanning the breadth and depth of Terraform’s functionality. First-class expression syntax: express references and expressions directly rather than using string interpolation syntax. Generalized type system: use lists and maps more freely, and use resources as object values. Iteration constructs: transform and filter one collection into another collection, and generate nested configuration blocks from collections. Structural rendering of plans: plan output now looks more like configuration making it easier to understand. Context-rich error messages: error messages now include a highlighted snippet of configuration and often suggest exactly what needs to be changed to resolve them.
Read moreHELLO SERVICE MESH INTERFACE (SMI): A SPECIFICATION FOR SERVICE MESH INTEROPERABILITY
Service Mesh Interface (SMI) defines a set of common, portable APIs that provide developers with interoperability across different service mesh technologies, including Istio, Linkerd, and Consul Connect. Today we are excited to launch Service Mesh Interface (SMI) which defines a set of common, portable APIs that provide developers with interoperability across different service mesh technologies including Istio, Linkerd, and Consul Connect. SMI is an open project started in partnership with Microsoft, Linkerd, HashiCorp, Solo, Kinvolk, and Weaveworks; with support from Aspen Mesh, Canonical, Docker, Pivotal, Rancher, Red Hat, and VMware.
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