Nov 25 2022
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Nutanix Hyper Converged Infrastructure Explained

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Converged and hyper-converged infrastructure is a hot topic at conferences and on tech blogs. These terms are simple: they refer to infrastructure solutions that combine elements (compute, storage and network) to create single solutions that…

Nov 25 2022
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Nutanix Certification Program

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Nutanix Certifications is one of the most popular certifications for 2020. This is a result of the rapid development in hyper-converged storage infrastructure. It’s clear that everyone wants to work in this cutting-edge technology. We…

Nov 11 2022
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TriggerMesh Launches Open Source Serverless Management Tool for AWS Cloud Serverless management startup TriggerMesh. This tool leverages Amazon Web Services Inc.’s events services to trigger serverless functions that are run in Kubernetes based implementations. TriggerMesh Knative Sources (TriggerMesh KLASS) is the tool’s name. It reflects the Kubernetes container orchestration system and Knative, which Google created to manage modern serverless workloads. TriggerMesh KLASS leverages AWS events services to trigger functions within Knative/Kubernetes. This allows cloud-native developers to create complex cross-cloud applications using simple, serverless functions in multiple cloud clouds.” TriggerMesh wrote last week in a blog post. This allows developers to be more flexible and creates the best infrastructure possible for the job. It also prevents serverless lock-in. These AWS services include:

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AWS CodeCommit is a fully managed source control system that hosts secure Git repositories. Amazon Cognito is a tool that allows developers to add user sign up, sign in, and access control to Web or…

Nov 11 2022
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Open Source AWS Development Kit for Kubernetes Announced Amazon Web Services (AWS), recently announced a new Cloud Development Kit (cdk8s) for Kubernetes. This open-source software development framework allows you to create Kubernetes apps using familiar programming languages. It is now available as an alpha product. The cdk8s (pronounced “cd kates”) kit is now compatible with Typescript, JavaScript and Python. There are plans to add support for other languages. “cdk8s allows you to manage Kubernetes with the same tools, techniques, workflows, and workflows you use to create applications. AWS stated that cdk8s can generate pure Kubernetes-YAML so you can use it for creating applications for any Kubernetes cluster anywhere. [Click on the image to see a larger animated GIF view.] Cloud Development Kit for Kubernetes (source: AWS). These are the attributes of the new offering.

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Works with any cluster: cdk8s can run locally on user machines. It also generates standard Kubernetes data YAML data so developers and others can use it with any Kubernetes cluster anywhere, even on-premises. Imperative approach…

Nov 11 2022
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Open Source AWS Cloud Development Kit Eases Infrastructure-as-Code AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), an open source software development framework helping developers define cloud infrastructure as code using familiar programming languages, has emerged from preview to become generally available. With the GA release of AWS CDK, those “familiar programming languages” include TypeScript/JavaScript and Python, while Java and .NET (C#) are still in developer preview. Developers can vote to include their preferred languages in the mix. AWS says defining infrastructure as code enables developers to:

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Keep application code and infrastructure in the same repository Make infrastructure changes repeatable across multiple environments, AWS accounts, AWS regions. To enable continuous testing, replicate production in a staging area You can replicate production in…

Nov 11 2022
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Apex Open Source Software Manages AWS Lambda Functions Apex is a recently upgraded open-source software that allows developers to manage AWS Lambda functions with enhanced functionality. Apex allows you to use languages not natively supported in AWS Lambda such as Golang through the use a Node.js shim injected directly into the build,” the project’s Web page states. There are many workflow tools available for testing functions, rolling back deployments, viewing metrics, tailing logs and hooking into the build system. AWS Lambda, a cloud-based, event-driven application management service, allows developers to run code without having to provision or manage servers. It supports Java, Python, and Java, in addition to Go, according to the project’s GitHub page. It is similar to Serverless, an open-source project on GitHub. Serverless promises to “Build Web and mobile applications with serverless architectures using AWS Lambda and Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, and more.” Apex explains how it differs to Serverless. Serverless uses CloudFormation for bootstrapping resources, which can be great for starting, but is generally less reliable than Terraform for managing the infrastructure over its lifetime. Apex currently does not offer resource management. This could change in the future to allow for light bootstrapping. Serverless currently does not support shimming languages that are not natively supported by Lambda like Golang. Apex does this automatically for you. Each project has its own structure and features. To see which one supports, please refer to the documentation. Apex is written in Go, while Serverless is written in Node.js.

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Languages Lambda doesn’t natively support via Shim, such as Go Binary install (install apex fast for continuous deployment in CI etc. ). Hook support for running commands (transpile code, lint, etc. ). Batteries are included,…