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Kubernetes 1.14: Production-level support for Windows Nodes, Kubectl Updates, Persistent Local Volumes GA

What’s new in Kubernetes 1.14?

What’s new for Kubernetes 1.14. A preview of the enhancements and new features that Kubernetes 1.14 will contain when released on March 25 2019. A colossal effort spanning almost 3 years, SIG-Windows is promoting the support of Windows Containers to stable.

Hash Your Way To a Better Neural Network

The computer industry has been busy in recent years trying to figure out how to speed up the calculations needed for artificial neural networks—either for their training or for what’s known as inference, when the network is performing its function. In particular, much effort has gone into designing special-purpose hardware to run such computations. Google, for example, developed its Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU, first described publicly in 2016.

DNA Computer Shows Programmable Chemical Machines Are Possible

The DNA computer works by layers of DNA logic gates attaching to a DNA origami seed (grey). Adapter strands [red] attach at specific locations on the seed, encoding the 6-bit input. DNA single-stranded logic gates [blue, brown, yellow] attach in locations that match the input, solving the algorithm as the system grows.

12 open source tools for natural language processing

It would be easy to argue that Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is the most full-featured tool of the ones I surveyed. It implements pretty much any component of NLP you would need, like classification, tokenization, stemming, tagging, parsing, and semantic reasoning. And there’s often more than one implementation for each, so you can choose theexact algorithm or methodology you’d like to use.

Kubernetes End-to-end Testing for Everyone

Implementing a test suite. This is the main focus of this blog post. The Kubernetes E2E framework is written in Go.

A Guide to Kubernetes Admission Controllers

Kubernetes has greatly improved the speed and manageability of backend clusters in production today. Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard in container orchestrators thanks to its flexibility, scalability, and ease of use. Kubernetes also provides a range of features that secure production workloads.

Detecting the Kubernetes API server DoS vulnerability (CVE-2019-1002100).

Recently, a new Kubernetes related vulnerability was announced that affected the kube-apiserver. This was a denial of service vulnerability where authorized users with write permissions could overload the API server as it is handling requests. The issue is categorized as a medium severity (CVSS score of 6.5) and can be resolved by upgrading the kube-apiserver to v1.11.8, v1.12.6, or v1.13.4.

Using Gloo as an ingress gateway with Istio and mTLS (updated for Istio 1.1!)

Init Container Build Pattern: Knative build with plain old Kubernetes deployment