CubeCon in Salt Lake City cannot ignore the current AI trend. However, the program committee did a great job. Unlike other events, the AI topic did not completely dominate the agenda.
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Still, there were AI announcements: First, there’s a new project Envoy AI GatewayIt is still quite young and developers are seeking collaboration. The software is based on the Envoy Gateway project, which comes from the API world. In the background, it’s about making sure that certain applications can communicate with each other. From Envoy’s perspective, AI is a fundamentally new application that deserves different treatment. A simple example is to implement so-called LLM routes (LLM – Large Language Model) within such gateways.
When it comes to API gateways, there are many products and projects that are attracting users. One Glue is from solo.ioIt is now a project under the auspices of CNCF. CEO and Founder Idit Levin performed the classic pull request on stage in front of an audience of thousands applauding. Solo.io offers in addition to the usual API gateway Also one with AI in the nameWhich specializes in application development and application operation. Specifically, this means providing a single API for different service providers to access: OpenAI, Mistral AI or Gemini.
Last but not least, SUSE has kept its promise from the summer: SUSE is AI now availableAnd the technology stack is now set. SLE Micro, SUSE Rancher Prime RKE2 and Neuvector Prime were already known. Kubernetes also includes the Nvidia GPU Operator for managing these chips. When it comes to AI components, the starters are Olama, a platform for setting up and managing AI, and the corresponding open webUI interface for web users. Milvus is used as a vector database.
At the conference, SUSE showed the architecture of its AI platform.
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The community also celebrated itself and its members. First, there is the End User Award, which is given to companies that have had a particularly positive impact on the development of the cloud-native ecosystem. Adobe received this award this yearCompany employees are actively involved in the development of CNCF projects. These include Kubernetes, Open Telemetry, and Envoy, among others. There are 46 projects in total.
At this year’s Community Awards, the Top Commiter award went to Joe Stringer for his contributions to the Linux kernel, EBPF, and CNCF projects. In the Lifetime Achievement category, which was introduced this year, the award went to Tim Hawkin, one of the fathers of Kubernetes.
TechRadar, last published in 2021, takes a look at the cloud-native landscape.
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finally finally there A new technology radar from CNCFThe last documented version is three years old. CNCF surveyed 300 selected developers in the third quarter of this year and, among other things, came to the conclusion that companies should look to ArgoCD and Cilium for multi-cluster management. In tech radar parlance, they fall into the “adopt” category: they have a level of maturity and distribution that minimizes risk for new users. There are four recommendations in the field of AI and computation for the company: Apache Airflow, KubeFS, Kubeflow and Fluid.
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