R&D Weekly
This week the base2 research and develoment team have been looking into
Federated Kubernetes Clusters Using Amazon EKS and KubeFed
This solution automates the deployment and federation of two Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters across multiple AWS Regions to ensure uninterrupted availability. We are currently looking to the solution provided by AWS and how easily it could integrate with existing EKS automation.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/01/introducing-federated-amazon-eks-clusters-aws/
Jenkins Distribution 2.263.2.2
We’ve been testing the latest Jenkins Distrubution release in our testing environemnt and have release 2.263.2.2-b1
https://docs.cloudbees.com/docs/cloudbees-jenkins-distribution-release-notes/latest/2.263.2.3
Aurora In Place Upgrades from 5.6 to 5.7
This is a great win for those looking to from Aurora 1 to Aurora 2 without having to recreate your database. We will be testing this out to findout any gotchas.
The graphical user interface of Porting Assistant for .NET is now open source
This is become quite a useful tool for us and our customers as they go on the dotnet to dotnetcore journey and it’s great to see Amazon open soucing more of it so we can help contribe and understand it better.