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Mirantis acquires Lens, an IDE for Kubernetes

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Mirantis, the company that recently bought Docker’s enterprise business, today announced that it has acquired Lens, a desktop application that the team describes as a Kubernetes integrated development environment. Mirantis previously acquired the team behind the Finnish startup Kontena, the company that originally developed Lens. Lens itself was most recently owned by Lakend Labs, though, […] Continue reading Mirantis acquires Lens, an IDE for Kubernetes→

Microsoft launches Open Service Mesh

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Microsoft today announced the launch of a new open-source service mesh based on the Envoy proxy. The Open Service Mesh is meant to be a reference implementation of the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) spec, a standard interface for service meshes on Kubernetes that has the backing of most of the players in this ecosystem. The […] Continue reading Microsoft launches Open Service Mesh→

Docker partners with AWS to improve container workflows

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Docker and AWS today announced a new collaboration that introduces a deep integration between Docker’s Compose and Desktop developer tools and AWS’s Elastic Container Service (ECS) and ECS on AWS Fargate. Previously, the two companies note, the workflow to take Compose files and run them on ECS was often challenging for developers. Now, the two […] Continue reading Docker partners with AWS to improve container workflows→

SUSE acquires Kubernetes management platform Rancher Labs

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SUSE, which describes itself as ‘the world’s largest independent open source company,’ today announced that it has acquired Rancher Labs, a company that has long focused on making it easier for enterprises to make their container clusters. The two companies did not disclose the price of the acquisition, but Rancher was well funded, with a […] Continue reading SUSE acquires Kubernetes management platform Rancher Labs→

OpenStack adds the StarlinkX edge computing stack to its top-level projects

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The OpenStack Foundation today announced that StarlingX, a container-based system for running edge deployments, is now a top-level project. With this, it joins the main OpenStack private and public cloud infrastructure project, the Airship lifecycle management system, Kata Containers and the Zuul CI/CD platform. What makes StarlingX a bit different from some of these other […] Continue reading OpenStack adds the StarlinkX edge computing stack to its top-level projects→

Mirantis releases its first major update to Docker Enterprise

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In a surprise move, Mirantis acquired Docker’s Enterprise platform business at the end of last year and while Docker itself is refocusing on developers, Mirantis kept the Docker Enterprise name and product. Today, Mirantis is rolling out its first major update to Docker Enterprise with the release of version 3.1. For the most part, these […] Continue reading Mirantis releases its first major update to Docker Enterprise→

AWS and Facebook launch an open-source model server for PyTorch

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AWS and Facebook today announced two new open-source projects around PyTorch, the popular open-source machine learning framework. The first of these is TorchServe, a model serving framework for PyTorch that will make it easier for developers to put their models into production. The other is TorchElastic, a library that makes it easier for developers to […] Continue reading AWS and Facebook launch an open-source model server for PyTorch→

Google launches TensorFlow Enterprise with long-term support and managed services

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Google open-sourced its TensorFlow machine learning framework back in 2015 and it quickly became one of the most popular platforms of its kind. Enterprises that wanted to use it, however, had to either work with third parties or do it themselves. To help these companies — and capture some of this lucrative market itself — […] Continue reading Google launches TensorFlow Enterprise with long-term support and managed services→

Join The New Stack for Pancake & Podcast with Q&A at TC Sessions: Enterprise

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Popular enterprise news and research site The New Stack is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise on September 5 for a special Pancake & Podcast session with live Q&A, featuring, you guessed it, delicious pancakes and awesome panelists! Here’s the “short stack” of what’s going to happen: Pancake buffet opens at 7:45 am on Thursday, September […] Continue reading Join The New Stack for Pancake & Podcast with Q&A at TC Sessions: Enterprise→

How Kubernetes came to rule the world

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Open source has become the de facto standard for building the software that underpins the complex infrastructure that runs everything from your favorite mobile apps to your company’s barely usable expense tool. Over the course of the last few years, a lot of new software is being deployed on top of Kubernetes, the tool for […] Continue reading How Kubernetes came to rule the world→