The good thing about flight delays and spending time in hotel rooms is that it finally gives me the opportunity to do some long overdue work on the CNA weekly. There are so many things that I want to share in this edition and I hope you’ll find it useful again.
Let me start with a loud shout-out to the global Harbor community. I am so extremely happy to see this great open source project receiving some well-deserved recognition: Harbor joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and is now the newest adopted sandbox project!
As many of you know, besides its highly successful existance in the Open Source community, Harbor is also an important piece in VMware’s Cloud-Native Applications efforts, specifically in vSphere Integrated Containers as well as Pivotal Container Service. Both of them saw several updates since the last edition of the weekly: PKS 1.1 is now available (incl. K8s 1.10, Multi Availabilty Zone Support, Multi-Master in beta, …) and VIC 1.4 has also been released. Check out the sections below for more details and links to the downloads.
But wait, there is more: VMware also announced a new cloud service called VMware Kubernetes Engine (VKE). VKE will be a multi-cloud managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service offering with some pretty unique features like the “Smart Cluster” implementation that picks the optimal instance types for your k8s cluster and much more. Right now it is built natively on AWS but it’ll head to Azure as well – but you can manage it with the same set of policies! Learn more about VKE in the links below – and you can also sign up for the beta there.
Another topic that is very close to my heart: how do you want to run your containers and platforms? When I started my career in IT in a large organization, I quickly learned the value and benefits that virtualization brings not only to the consumers but also to the operators of the infrastructure. And running containers is no exception here. Make sure to look into a great new whitepaper (“Containers on Bare-Metal or Virtual Machines?“) and look out for a must-watch VMworld 2018 session presented by Michael Gasch and Frank Denneman.
But let’s move on to some content:
Open Source & Community updates
- Istio 1.0: An Interview with the Technical Lead for Istio Networking
- Kubernetes Features Status by Releases
- Dispatch — A Multi-Tenant FaaS
- Exploring Kubernetes 1.11
- Kubeapp by Bitnami Over PKS infrastructure by my colleageus Roie, Barak and Oren!
- Jenkins X with VMware Pivotal Container Service – from code to production (Roie and Oren again!)
- CNCF Adds VMware vSphere to Cross-Cloud CI Dashboard
- TUTORIAL – Deploying Software on PKS: Creating a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Spinnaker
- The CNCF Style Guide clarifies some fundamentals around how to pronounce Kubernetes and other topics
- 10 Common Git Problems and How to Fix Them
- GitOps: A Path to More Self-service IT
Harbor
- Harbor joins Harbor Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- The New Stack: CNCF’s Cloud-Native Stack Gets a Private Container Registry from VMware
- Learn more about Project Harbor in this recent webcast. Hear from Harbor product lead James Zabala and project founder Henry Zhang from VMware how Harbor works, why it’s depended on by organizations such as Caicloud, and how you can get started with it
- Harbor Delivers a Trusted Cloud Native Registry
Pivotal Container Service (PKS)
- Announcing PKS 1.1 with Kubernetes 1.10 and Enhanced Enterprise Features
- BOSH Tutorial Video Series – a great resource for operators that want to learn more about one of the central components in PKS
- Pivotal Container Service & Wavefront integration demonstration
- Pivotal Container Service & vRealize Log Insight integration demonstration
- Integrating NSX-T and Pivotal Container Service (PKS) – a new blogpost by Cormac Hogan & a video by Pivotal
- Another PKS blogpost by Cormac Hogan: Project Hatchway and K8s vSphere Cloud Provider review
- Lab Update by William Lam: automating deployment/configuration of all PKS Components: Stemcell Updates, Tile upload, Ops Manager, BOSH Director & Harbor configuration & script can run on MacOS or Linux now
- Visibility into PKS-deployed Kubernetes Clusters with OSS Prometheus and Grafana
- PKS configuration and installation automation by my great colleague Brice
- PKS on vSAN Solution Brief
- Wavefront Analytics Integrated with Pivotal Container Service Delivers Holistic Kubernetes Visibility
- Chad Sakac reflecting on his first three months with Pivotal, PKS and the ecosystem
VMware Kubernetes Engine
- Introducing VMware Kubernetes Engine™ (VKE)
- Sign up for the VKE beta here
- The Register article on VKE launch announcement
- VMware Kubernetes Engine integration with Wavefront
vSphere Integrated Containers
- My friend Robert Guske finally started writing a blog to channel his enthusiasm around Cloud-Native technology. MAke sure to check out his site and his first blogpost series (4 parts!) on VIC
- vSphere Integrated Container networking overview with NSX
- vSphere Integrated Containers 1.4.1 has been released. Documentation, Release Notes, Download
Function-as-a-Service & Serverless
- The State of Serverless Technology in the Cloud-Native Space
- Introducing the OpenFaaS Operator for Serverless on Kubernetes by Alex Ellis
Platform Reliability Engineering & Operations
- If you heard me preseting recently, you’ll definitely remember me highlighting the importance of abstractions and contracts between consumer and provider of IT services. My colleague Steve Tegeler has presented a lightboard on this topic as well and highlighted the Developer Abstractions in a separate lightboard session
- Mapping Kubernetes to your Infrastructure – another lightboard video by Steve
Other news from VMware
- VMworld Session Sneak Peek: The Value of Running Kubernetes on vSphere
- vSphere 6.7: get your hands on the new features in this free and easy-to-access lab
- The value-add of NSX Data Center Compared To Open Source Solutions For Cloud Native Apps
- Announcing General Availability of VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.2
- VMware Integrated OpenStack 5.0: Release Notes
- OVA/OVF Deployment Using govc CLI by Romain – great tool to have for day-to-day automation in vSphere
- Big news: vRealizing IaaS as a Code Multi-Developer Story with vRealize Automation and LifeCycle Suite Content Management
- Fling (Labs) update: Blockchain on Kubernetes – it now also includes a Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Tile!
Keeping it fun
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