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DevClass: “What’s that coming over the hill? 2020’s last Kubernetes release”
DevClass: “What’s that coming over the hill? 2020’s last Kubernetes release” December 10, 2020
The Kubernetes release cycle is back to its usual self, bringing version 1.20 to K8s aficionados young and old. The release includes stable volume snapshot operations, process ID limiting, advances in kubectl debug, and one less thing to worry about...

InfoWorld: “What’s new in Kubernetes 1.20”
InfoWorld: “What’s new in Kubernetes 1.20” December 9, 2020
The latest release of the container orchestration system deprecates the Docker runtime in favor of its own runtime interface.

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Container Journal “Kubernetes 1.20 Arrives in a Hail of Controversy” December 9, 2020
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) that oversees the development of Kubernetes has approved a 1.20 release of the platform that promises to simplify IT operations tasks while at the same announcing that support for Docker Engine in the platform will be deprecated...

SDxCentral: “Open Source Community Conquers 2020’s Pitfalls”
SDxCentral: “Open Source Community Conquers 2020’s Pitfalls” December 9, 2020
The open source community has made its mark on the software development space through its one-for-all, all-for-one group think and pace of innovation that no single enterprise could ever hope to match. This has allowed open source-based platforms...

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 from the...

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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 more teams...

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 make a...

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 in November...