CoreOS Tectonic 1.8 makes it easy to plug external services into Kubernetes
Summary
CoreOS announced Tectonic 1.8, its latest update of the popular Kubernetes container orchestration tool.As Rob Szumski, Tectonic product manager at CoreOS pointed out in a company blog post announcing the new version, public clouds offer lots of benefits around ease of use, but they can end up locking you in, in some cases to a proprietary set of tools.Instead of using those proprietary tools, you get more open choices and that should make it easier to move between clouds or a hybrid environment.What’s more, the Open Cloud Catalog is built right into the Tectonic console, making it simple to enable the external services (or disable them as you choose).The latest version will be shipping towards the end of the year and the company says it will be a smooth and automatic update from Tectonic 1.7 for existing CoreOS customers.