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Kubernetes K8s.gcr.io Redirect: What You Need To Know As An Anthos Or GKE User

In November 2022, the open source Kubernetes project announced that its new image registry, registry.k8s.gcr.io, was officially GA. The new registry would replace the legacy k8s.gcr.io registry, with k8s.gcr.io getting no further updates after April 3, 2023. To assist in this transition and ensure that users of earlier Kubernetes releases and tooling can update to supported versions in time, the Kubernetes project, in partnership with Google, gradually started redirecting image requests from k8s.gcr.io to registry.k8s.io on March 20, 2023. Today’s post covers what’s happening, why, and, more importantly, what actions you can take to switch to registry.k8s.io to mitigate future…
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Oracle Helidon Taps Virtual Threads For ‘Pure Performance’

Version 4.0.0 of Oracle’s Java microservices framework introduces a web server based on virtual threads, which promise both outstanding performance and simpler programming. Oracle’s Helidon, a set of Java libraries for developing cloud-native microservices, is set to improve performance via virtual threads with the planned 4.00 version. Currently in an alpha state of development, Helidon 4.0.0 introduces Nima, a web server based on virtual threads, which are JVM-managed lightweight threads that can improve scalability. Virtual threads, previewed in both this week’s Java Development Kit (JDK) 20 and last September’s JDK 19, also are intended to significantly reduce the effort needed to write and maintain…
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Bringing Observability To Cloud Security

Cloud security threats are increasing in both frequency and intensity. We need better visibility into potential threats and proactive approaches to addressing risk. Security observability is the ability to gain visibility into an organization’s security posture, including its ability to detect and respond to security threats and vulnerabilities. It involves collecting, analyzing, and visualizing security data to identify potential hazards and take proactive measures to mitigate them. Security observability involves collecting data from various security tools and systems, including network logs, endpoint security solutions, and security information and event management (SIEM) platforms, and then using this data to gain insights…
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Docker’s Bad Week

Instead of focusing on the poorly communicated decision to sunset Free Teams, look at the company’s overall direction to focus on what developers want. Docker had a bad week. What’s less clear is whether Docker deserved it. For those who haven’t heard, last week Docker announced that it was sunsetting Free Team subscriptions. Some in the open source world read this as “pay up or lose your data.” In light of the uproar, Docker was quick to apologize: “We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams.” Unsurprisingly, this failed to placate its most vociferous critics: “The open source community…
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IBM And Fundación Ikerbasque Partner To Launch Groundbreaking Quantum Computational Center

• IBM Quantum Computational Center is first to be deployed in the Basque Country, Spain, providing Qiskit Runtime services from a 127-qubit on-site IBM Quantum System One. • The IBM-Euskadi Quantum Computational Center, to be located on Ikerbasque Foundation main campus in San Sebastian – Spain, is anticipated to be completed by end 2024. • The IBM-Euskadi Quantum Computational Center seeks to advance discovery and solutions in physics, information science, and materials science using quantum computing. San Sebastian, March 24th, 2023. Fundación Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science in the Basque Country of Spain, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today presented details of how they are partnering to…
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Sovereign Clouds Are Becoming A Big Deal Again

For companies that are required to keep data within a specific country or region, a sovereign cloud may be a key part of a multicloud deployment. Cloud-using industries such as banking, insurance, healthcare, and the public sector face additional challenges complying with laws and requirements within specific regions. This has increased the demand for sovereign clouds. This cloud architecture approach seems to fly under everyone’s radar; thus, I’m bringing it up. Sovereign clouds are semipublic cloud services owned, controlled, and operated by a particular country, region, or sometimes a cloud provider serving a region. They may be owned by the…
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Why Is Your Multicloud So Slow?

Many complain about the performance of their multicloud deployments these days, and for good reasons. Here are a few areas to look for answers. It’s a Wednesday, and the accounting team is closing out this month’s sales and running end-of-month processing on a multicloud platform deployed four months ago. They run sales order entries on one cloud provider and the accounting application on another. Spanning both clouds is a common security system and API manager, among other services. What took only a few hours last month to process from start to finish now takes almost a day. You get an…
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Cloudflare Democratizes Post-Quantum Cryptography By Delivering It For Free, By Default

Already powering more than 99% of all websites that support NIST standard track post-quantum cryptography today, Cloudflare aims to help defend online users against threats of advanced computing San Francisco, CA, March 16, 2023 – Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today announced it will provide post-quantum cryptography for free by default to all customers to help secure their websites, APIs, cloud tools and remote employees against future threats. Now, all Cloudflare customers will be able to seamlessly migrate to the next era of cybersecurity standards–instantly and for free. Cloudflare is making this…
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3 Ways To Screw Up A Multicloud Deployment

We’re experienced with multicloud, but we’re also making common mistakes. Make sure you plan common services and have all your people on board. I guess I could place some stat here that shows multicloud is the large majority of public cloud deployments out there, but there are lots of other places to see that. We know it’s a common approach for enterprises to move to plural clouds versus single-cloud deployments. Enough said.  The mistakes I see in multicloud deployments are not at all what you would think. You likely believe these errors are related to some complex technology being deployed…
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Kubernetes-Native Database: TiDB Vs. DataStax Astra DB

A look at two databases that have made claims to the Kubernetes native label: TiDB and DataStax Astra DB. The cloud computing revolution has inspired and benefitted from multiple interrelated trends. The availability of self-service, public cloud infrastructure has helped to drive the adoption of microservice architectures and DevOps practices, including automation and observability. The drive toward containerization and container orchestration has led to the widespread adoption of Kubernetes as an environment for managing cloud-native applications. But one of the lagging areas in this revolution has been data and data infrastructure. For too long, data has been something that has…
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