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State of Cloud Native Development - Cloud Native Computing Foundation
The freshly released State of Cloud Native Development shows that there has been a significant increase in the global adoption of cloud native technologies, especially containers and container orchestration tools.

Why the Kubernetes Scheduler Is Not Enough for Your AI Workloads
When it comes to AI/ML workload on Kubernetes, we enter a particular area with multiple challenges. A specific problem is that more holistic scheduling is required for AI workload instead of the vanilla reactive, event-driven scheduling.
Extending Kubernetes to an unlimited one through tensile-kube
tensile-kube enables kubernetes clusters to work together. Based on virtual kubelet, it gives access from a "higer" K8s cluster to "lower" K8s cluster. Through this bypass tensible allows to discover cluster resources, supports kubectl cross clusters, globally schedule pods and so on.
Introducing Hierarchical Namespaces
Hierarchical namespaces are a new concept developed by the Kubernetes Working Group for Multi-Tenancy (wg-multitenancy) in order to solve some problems with namespaces and the cluster usage. In its simplest form, a hierarchical namespace is a regular Kubernetes namespace that contains a small custom resource that identifies a single, optional, parent namespace.

olric v0.3.0
Meet olric! A distributed cache and in-memory key/value data store. It can be used both as an embedded Go library and as a language-independent service. With Olric, you can instantly create a fast, scalable, shared pool of RAM across a cluster of computers.

Announcing HashiCorp Terraform 0.13 General Availability
HashiCorp releases Terraform 0.13 and is now in general availability. The latest version comes with improvements to modules, automatic installation of third-party providers and custom variable validation.
Mirantis Acquires Open Source Lens IDE Project
Mirantis wents on a shopping tour, again, and acquires the open source project Lens. Lens calls itself a Kubernetes IDE, and is basically a Kubernetes Dashboard on steroids!

eBPF.io a new how to learn about eBPF
Cilium, the eBPF based CNI, throw together their knowledge of eBPF and bring it to a new home. eBPF.io gives a strong introduction and overview of other eBPF projects.
Envoy 1.15 introduces a new Postgres extension with monitoring support
Postgres is one of the most popular open source database out there. Now Envoy 1.15 comes with a dedicated plugin to support the monitoring of PSQL. What do you think, is it so much needed? Changing the purposed of Envoy? Or is it a logical step through its evolution?

Taking the Open Service Mesh for a test drive
Microsoft brought another service mesh into the game. The Open Service Mesh is a lightweight, extensible and SMI compliant service mesh, running on Envoy.